In-love

The opportunity to hold a brand-new baby came along a couple of weeks ago, and I eagerly, although not too eagerly (I asked the new Mama first) accepted. Having recently gone through some of the research on newborns capabilities at birth (Your Amazing Newborn Marshall Klaus and Phyllis Klaus), I watched and observed to see how this little baby (all six lbs of her) would react to being held by a stranger. As I watched her gaze, slightly clouded, searching my face and the face of the person next to me, her Mama started to talk. I held her in my lap guarded by my hands so she couldn't roll over, but her head had some freedom to move around. When she heard her Mama's voice, she turned her head to the left and up, and up, and up some more, searching for her Mama's face. I wonder if her Mama knew how much her little one desperately wanted her Mama, the one constant and safe person she had known the previous 9 months. I mentioned to her Mama that the little one was looking for her, and eventually she came over and picked her up again. I don't know if her Mama knows how desperately in-love her little girl is with her Mama, but I hope they grow in-love together, as no one else can meet her needs for mothering, like this woman blessed with this child. I also recognized how deep the ache, the desperation to feel the love of the Father in our lives, a hole that no one else can fill.

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There's more that rises in the morning
Than the sun
And more that shines in the night
Than just the moon
It's more than just this fire here
That keeps me warm
In a shelter that is larger
Than this room

And there's a loyalty that's deeper
Than mere sentiments
And a music higher than the songs
That I can sing
The stuff of Earth competes
For the allegiance
I owe only to the giver
Of all good things

CHORUS:
So if I stand let me stand on the promise
That you will pull me through
And if I can't, let me fall on the grace
That first brought me to You
And if I sing let me sing for the joy
That has born in me these songs
And if I weep let it be as a man
Who is longing for his home

There's more that dances on the prairies
Than the wind
More that pulses in the ocean
Than the tide
There's a love that is fiercer
Than the love between friends
More gentle than a mother's
When her baby's at her side

And there's a loyalty that's deeper
Than mere sentiments
And a music higher than the songs
That I can sing
The stuff of Earth competes
For the allegence
I owe only to the Giver
Of all good things

CHORUS(2x)

And if I weep let it be as a man
Who is longing for his home

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