Daughters

Last weekend I went with 2 of my daughters to a baby shower given for another daughter. It was such a nice weekend. My daughter has such nice friends and they were all there with their little ones and I was overjoyed with everyone's thoughtfulness and kindness. I had the same with all my children. In fact I had a shower for all 8. My mother did not approve and neither did I but friends being the sweet things that they are.... I loved the parties. We had lunches and we gave gifts to Crisis Pregnancy Centers but mostly we celebrated with each other the gift of new life. I am on pins and needles now ( really I am sewing and I can be messy)waiting for this baby to be born. I will hop in the car the moment I hear that she has started labor which I just know will be this week.( It is a 5 hour drive)Life is so dear to be attending the birth of a grandchild.
I spent all last week with my 1st and he was so fun. I love 4 yr old and he is 3 1/2 just done with all the temper work that 2 yr olds must try out and just ready to be a kid. Puddles and sticks and stories and games. This is real work for these kids. I can't wait to help out this summer in his VBS and begin the process of summer visit centered around VBS. I figure I will be busy every week( in the summer) by the end of the next 10 yrs when everyone is married and having children. It is a great thought.
Finished Elizabeth Goudge's autobiography and it ends with a prayer by Thomas Traherne that I like so much.
O God, who by love alone art great and glorious, that art present and livest with us by love alone: Grant us likewise by love to attain another self, by love to live in others, and by love to come to our glory, to see and accompany Thy love throughout all eternity.

It is that love that has produced again the glories of spring. The forsythia is budding, the iris are popping up and the willows are that beautiful yellow haze around the ponds they grow by as I drive to school. Some have accused Traherne of being pantheistic but really, enjoying the God who has given the wonders of the natural world does not make one a worshiper of the earth!Glory, I am so glad we are not bound in this post modern world to the teachings of one set of views. That we can change and grow in thought, word and deed. With that I go back to being on the pins and needles sewing for all the new babies that are to be born in my acquaintance this spring.