Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Our younger son and his wife told us last week that they are having a baby.  We are overjoyed.  They found each other relatively late and are so right for each other.  They are even middle children in families of four.  They married a year ago, and now, beginning in their forties, are embarking on their dream of their own family.  Both of them are the last siblings in their families to have a child.  My husband and I worried for them, that their dream might be difficult because of age.  But they will have their baby in the spring, and we will all welcome it with love and joy.  I'm happy for them, and for more cousins for the grandchildren, and for the hope it expresses, and our family's determination to look to the future, and choose love and risk and pain and connection over closing down in fear.  Love is the question, love is the answer, love is the connector and the pulse of the world.