A great analogy

This morning, I happened to catch a glimpse of the Cascade Mountains from my living room window. This is amazing, because we live approx. 70 miles west of these mountains, and we have trees lining our deck. Most mornings are cloudy, but there was a thin layer of cloudlessness above the mountains in the distance, and so I could watch the sun rise over their peaks.

Then a thought struck me - I can see those mountains from so far away! I can almost make out the trees on the hillsides! How beautifully amazing.

Then another thought struck me - I can draw an infertility analogy from this view. When we drive up to the mountains to go skiing, it seems that we will are driving on a treadmill. Regardless of how far we go, the mountains never seem to get any nearer. But then, all of the sudden we look around and realize that we've hit the snowline and we're there!

I think our journey to parenthood is the same. In reality, each passing day is brining us closer to our child(ren) - and while our dreams seem always unreachably ahead, one day we will laugh with the realization that - wow, we've made it! And the great thing is that we don't know when that will be. It could be sooner than we think.