Our older son and our daughter-in-law are expecting a baby boy at the end of September. We've been sworn to secrecy until now. Talk about struggling with right speech! Earlier this week my friend asked if they were going to have children and I had to beat around the bush. Her daughter is expecting at the same time, and it was hard not to spill the beans. I'm like my mother that way. She would be so excited and dying to share. She'd grown up in a family of 13, and so secrets were hard to come by. They slept 4 to a bed in a tiny house. Nobody had any privacy. Her fun was all shared experience. I must have inherited that desire, though I have no excuse.
What a relief to tell my friends and feel their happiness for the couple and the whole family. And my joy has expanded with the telling. Does it make the baby more real? It certainly takes a village to raise a child, and I seem to be inviting my world to share in this event, and pray for the health of the baby and the safe delivery of this precious little being. He has so many good wishes flying his way. A birth is renewal and affirmation. This gift of life is our most dear present. We honor all life when we help the parents with this most profound of transitions.
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