But what an awesome privilege and honor to be parents - knowing that God, our creator and heavenly Father, chose us to be the parents of this particular soul. I am eternally grateful that I know God and have a personal relationship with Jesus as my savior - this relationship colors all my experiences and give extra special meaning to them all. So I look in awesome wonder at this tiny baby in my arms - knowing she is an eternal soul - loaned to us as parents for a while.
Kahlil Gibran expresses some of these reflections:
"your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness:
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable."
I believe that God the eternal creator is the archer, the potter, the sustainer of all life. And that He has already determined all the days of our daughter's life when as yet there were none of them. Psalm 149: 13 - 17.
Kahlil Gibran expresses some of these reflections:
"your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness:
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable."
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| Hannah Victoria, our "soul on loan" from God |
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