Soul Carving

       Days pass too quickly with a newborn in the house. Baby is already 2 months old, and Richard's first father's day as Daddy to 8 munchkins has come and gone.         I knew I'd need to keep things simple for our traditional father's day photo shoot. I didn't even end up adding any clever catchphrase to the finished print this time. Featuring so many little faces didn't leave much room for a punny slogan.         I thought I was being efficient when I decided we'd take the pictures outside at a park during our regular outing to the library. We wouldn't be making an extra trip because we already had books due, plus, we'd be able to do it without Richard seeing -- something harder to do now that he works more often from home.         But that morning with laundry to fold, a kitchen to clean up, and text messages about potential scheduling conflicts flying back and forth, I was begi...

We fancy that God can only manage His world with battalions, when all the while He is doing it with beautiful babies.  When a wrong wants righting, or a truth wants preaching, or a continent needs opening,  God sends a baby into the world . . . perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother.  And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart,  and she puts it into the baby's mind.  And then God waits.  The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and thunderbolts.  The greatest forces in the world are babies."  -- E.T. Sullivan

“In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.” -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh