Creation

Newly discovered that Andrea and I are pregnant. We are so excited and sufficiently overwhelmed with the thought of another child. The joy of conception is an unbelievable gift to humankind. That we, who can't even live our own lives with grace, might be endowed with such responsibility, such deep care to be allowed a precious dependant infant- true gift and miracle- each and every one. Not only if that were not absurd enough but that we might be given the role of teaching, maturing, loving, guiding, and caring for this child... we who struggle with our own lives, our own relationships, our own choices. Isn't the circle of life, the burden of legacy incomprehensibly absurd? The only thing I rest in is that children are a gift, maybe a gift of redemption that we might correct wrongs lived out in our childhood through the raising of your children. A gift that through loving your child you might sense the magnitude of love God has for us all. That through this gift, the tsunami of absurd unconditional love fills our lives and invades our hearts. I, as a co-creator with my wife and God, am richly blessed. May God who has lavished blessing continue to grow me in the ways of grace and peace, hope and help, perseverance and courage so that I might be a change agent for love in the world and help other experience the blessing and burden of relationship and creation.