Nothing’s more exciting than learning about a newborn.  Talk about good news!  

My friend Jim just had a baby boy and I’m thrilled for him.  My mind immediately leaps back to when my boys were first born.  I quickly forget the sleepless nights or the anxiety about how could we ever afford children.  (I remember fretting about spending a mere $2.50 on a diaper pail.)  Instead I want to tell Jim about the gummy smiles and the sweet scent of your kids after their bath and all those crazy things we built out of Legos.

I never look at my mostly grown sons without seeing their faces when they were babies, wrapped in their first blanket at the hospital.  I can’t travel those fifteen blocks from the hospital to our home without remembering the excitement I felt at their birth.

And you know what?  The excitement is still there when I hear from them by email or by phone.  I can’t wait to know what is going on in their lives.  I hang on their every word.

At baptisms at our church one minister used to say, “A new baby is a sign from God that he wants the world to go on.”  A new baby is a reason to be filled with hope.  Think what the world can become!