Baby :)

Yay! Church friends apparently have a new baby now! (Lol that sounds weird, like the baby just suddenly appeared)

I've always wondered how it feels like to have a baby. Especially your first child.

It's like... Your whole life changed overnight?

Suddenly a huge responsibility put on you.
A new life to nurture; a new mouth to feed.

A part of you, and the one you love.
How amazing is that?

To the world, it's just another human being now;
Another first breath; see who gets the last breath now.
Fight for the best.

And it's so incredibly vulnerable;
Essentially deaf and blind and lame and mute.
You can't protect it anymore.
It will make its own decisions from now on.

But all this? I don't think you'd care.
You'd be too busy, falling in love with those eyes- perhaps a bit small to be conventionally 'cute' or 'pretty' when it grows up- those ears- just a bit big- those tiny feet.

Marveling at what hand; what design could have created this tiny piece of wonder. (On that note, the hundreds of nerves that make up the thing that is your eye? I don't believe we could 'evolve' that so perfectly =33)

You're in love; you're in love :).
From day one.
It's just more and more amazement and wonder and beauty, everyday from now on.

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We often say 'God delights in us, because he created us, beautiful'.

And I used to always think, 'cool; so God's like an artist, falling in love with his artwork', and think that it would be in the same way as one of us writing a really nice song and falling in love with it, or writing a poem or taking a photo, or something cool.

It's beautiful, right? So it deserves 'loving'.

But you know what? I'd forgotten his love.

So now, as I look back and reflect, I can't believe I missed it earlier.

He loves us, as a father marvels at the beauty of a child.

(How awesome it is, that we have earthly fathers to model a small-scale version of this love!)