Births and deaths tend to draw our thoughts towards life itself and the things that matter.
As
I write this, I'm getting updates from a delivery room. The wonders of our modern age make it possible for me to feel as though I'm almost in the room with my daughter as she labours to bring our second little grandson into this
world.
Our
almost-here little man has decided he’d like to enter this big world a little
early so I have inherited the job of sewing up the last few sheets for his
little Moses Basket, a job which his Mummy may have been putting off. So my
morning has been spent between the sewing machine, the ironing board and my computer.
With the house to myself and only the occasional sound of a message coming in, I've had plenty of time to think.
Today
is going to be a birth day! I've just received a message to say mummy is ready
to ‘push’! That means that perhaps even as I write these words, a new life is
beginning! What an amazing thought!!! I wonder if it’s possible to ever get to
the stage where you feel you have your head around this miracle. If so, I’m a
long way from that point!
As
I’ve been stitching this morning, I've pondered the stitching together of this little life over the past thirty eight weeks. What an incredible work of art a
new baby is! Such complexities all wrapped up in miniature perfection, and what
never ceases to amaze me, is the intricacies of inherited likeness so often
already obvious! Creation really is beyond our thinking capabilities!
It’s
not really surprising that we can’t get our heads around the process of
creation. The One who came up with this idea also put together our universe and
I think that sort of sets Him apart!
…It’s
now 2 days since our little Harper Joshua arrived and what a little treasure he
is… and very little!
I
expected to write more in this post but the new little family is staying with
us for a few days, and spare minutes are few and very far between. I have
therefore decided to post this raw, unpolished and ‘unfinished’. The words are
just as they first came to me, on a very special day…a birth day!
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