Today is Bella‘s second birthday! It’s so amazing! Tomorrow will be a big birthday party with family and friends. The big play house I built was already delivered. The cake has been ordered…so let the party begin! So much love from this little bundle of joy. I said this before and I’ll say it again: Who can look at a baby or into the eyes of a small child and not know that there is a God above us? So pure, so simple, yet so complex and incredible! Just like our world and universe. So simple, pure, yet so incredible and complex. Ask any mother…this child did not just spring forth by accident and form into a child in the birth canal. She felt it! And we celebrate the birth and subsequent years, achievements, milestones, boo-boos and broken hearts, because it is all part of the journey of this life.
The great thing is we need not imagine how God views us. We are his children and He is our loving father. St. John writes us reminding us of this love story. “See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are.” 1 Jn 3:1 That is us…that is who we are. We are children of the Father. We are children of the Heavenly Father.
Last night, I went out to meet a freind. When I came home, to my delight, I fought Bella and DeAnna playing on the floor. Bella looked up and said “Pop-pop!” and I said “BELLA!”
I was thrilled to see her. My heart leapt. SEE WHAT LOVE! If you are ever unsure of where you stand with God, close your eyes and say “POP-POP” and I promise you, if you really listen…you will hear Him reply with YOUR NAME (in all caps, with an exclamation point.)