Baby

 A new baby. I met a little girl today just a few days old. She has been born into an adoring home filled with so much love. Her little face is so fresh. She has been cradled so patiently in her mothers body and now she is in her mother's arms. Her life will be filled with love and it was so precious to meet her. I know of another little one....born to a mother who had rejected her from the start. She was given up for adoption and was given so much love for three weeks only for the birth mother to decide she now wanted her back. The grief of these newly hopeful parents. They got to love her for such a short time and now she is being taken away. Every day on this earth there is such heart break and sorrow and shattering and every day on this earth there is such beauty and celebration and adoration. Our hearts hope for the good to be present. Our hearts hope for the strength to keep on going when our shoulders are daily bowed with grief and suffering. Our hearts hope for those moments of illumination and strength. So often we feel alone on the days of our darkest hours but we are never alone truly.
 Oh sweet baby ~ no matter what happens to you ~ you are loved so deeply and richly and fully. May that love burrow deeply in your spirit and let it never ever escape you. As you grow, no matter what you face may these first three weeks of your life on earth ~ filled with so much love and so much adoration and joy....may they mark you forever and never leave you. May you be filled with joy and laughter and may the ones who have so freely and so beautifully welcomed you ~ may they know that you can never be the same, because they swept in and banished the rejection and the pain, and they filled you with love.