A Gift from God

We celebrated "Family Sunday" this week. I bribed Ashley into letting me take her picture. She said that she was miserable and that she hoped February 22 would arrive quickly so that she would have her baby daughter. But little did she know......

Ashley's and Justin's beautiful baby daughter was to be born sooner than expected. She arrived a little early - February 9.

Isn't Haylee Sherryann a beautiful baby?

Daddy and Mommy love her so very much. Big brother Mason is anxious to have Mommy and Baby come home. Daddy and Mommy are both oh so tired!

Yes - tired but so very, very happy.

I am so very happy, proud, and thrilled to have another beautiful great-grandchild!! A baby is a gift from God.

Baby
WHERE did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here.
Where did you get those eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand strok’d it as I went by.
What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than any one knows.
Whence that three-corner’d smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and hands?
Love made itself into bonds and bands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs’ wings.
How did they all just come to be you?
God thought about me, and so I grew.
But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, and so I am here.

George Macdonald (1824–1905)