How do I explain a feeling that I have never felt before this weekend? How can I express in a Facebook post the thing I want to tell the whole world? Well, I will try. The moment I realized this tiny bundle of cuteness was my child, joy and love and fear filled my heart with one amazing rush, like an adrenaline shot to the heart, waking me from the dead. All at once I realized the great weight of my responsibility and, even more, the unexplainable love that I had for this little girl. She is the greatest miracle I have ever experienced. I am no longer a child. I am a man. This love is transforming me. After describing love in 1 Corinthians 13 Paul says, “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” (1 Cor. 13:11-12). There is something about this little girl that has made my vision a bit clearer. The more we love while we are on this earth, the clearer our vision is. I can only imagine how amazing this world will look when I stand before perfect love, i.e. Jesus, and the dim reflection comes to life in unimaginable color. I know it has only just begun, but fatherhood is revelatory.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:07:43 +0000
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