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I got to hold a baby again recently. I had taken
my son to the doctor’s office for a checkup and noticed a tired
grandmother trying to fill out the office’s paperwork, and comfort
her sick grandchild at the same time. I offered to help and gently
rocked the infant back to sleep. With all of
my children teenagers now it had been a while since I had held
someone quite so small in my arms. As I
looked at his sweet, innocent face I couldn’t help but to think of
what life held in store for him. I knew that
it would be a mixture of both joy and fear, laughter and tears,
growth and struggle, learning and difficulty, and love and pain. I said a silent prayer that he would learn
quickly to choose the good things and not to dwell on the bad. I also prayed that he would always feel loved in
this life. I knew that if he felt loved then
he would also choose love and share love with so many others as well.
I then said this prayer for the rest of us
too: We may be fathers, mothers, and grandparents now, but
inside of each of us there is still a child needing love and wanting
to be loved. Thankfully, we have a parent
who loves us with a love that is both unending and unconditional. We are all Children of God and we are always
held in His loving arms as we go through this life.
Even if we haven’t always felt loved
by the people in our lives we can be assured that His love will
always be there for us.
May we all feel loved in this life. May we all feel God’s love for us from our first
breath until our last sigh. May we feel
loved through all the joy we experience and through all the pain we
must face as well. May we use that love to
choose the good things in life and not dwell on the bad. May we use that love to become more loving
ourselves every single day of our lives. May
we use that love and share our love to help others feel loved as
well.
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