The Gift of Babies...

E.T. Sullivan wrote these words:
"When God wants a great work done in the world
or a great wrong righted,
he goes about it in a very unusual way.
He doesn’t stir up his earthquakes
or send forth his thunderbolts.
Instead, he has a helpless baby born,
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 the thunderbolts.
The greatest forces in the world are babies.”


For the Christian faith...at this time of year...every year...a very big deal is made about the birth of a baby...a very special baby, to be sure...and yet, a baby, nonetheless.

This may be an appropriate time to reflect on the birth of that particular baby in the Middle East some two thousand or so years ago and on the birth of all babies, as well.



With the birth of every baby comes the possibility of
Love and Hope, and Peace, and Grace...
and a Light that dispels the darkness.
The possibility of a Tomorrow.
that is better than Today, and Yesterday.
The possibility that this New Life will
Stop believing the unbelievable…
Stop accepting the unacceptable…
Stop trying to do the undoable…
Stop suffering the insufferable…
Stop tolerating the intolerable…
Stop bearing the unbearable…

In this life, that is a mix of good and bad...sweet and bitter…
ups and downs…birth and death.

In this life that is wild and sneaky,
and messy...sometimes real messy,
each new baby born brings the possibility
that we will begin to turn things around...for the better;
that we will rekindle our graceful inner spirit;
that we will be just a wee-bit more kind to each other.

And why?
Because...
The greatest forces in the world
are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts.
The greatest forces in the world are babies.