Babies and Toddlers, Toddlers and Babies...

So, I'm part of a singles ministry group at my church.  That means, obviously, that there are a lot of couples involved that have babies or toddlers.  Tonight we went caroling as a group.  I was privileged enough to carry a young baby around during our first half hour or so.  It was so breath taking to sing songs about the birth of Christ as I carried this baby around in the cold.  (She was wrapped up to the point that both of us were sweating, so stop your worrying about her being out in the cold!)  I very rarely get to be around infants but when I am something in my clicks and finds peace at the simplicity of a new life.  I know that being a parent isn't simple or easy, but man oh man being an infant is pure instincts.

We ended our night at our singles ministers house.  I got to hold a teeny tiny little girl there for a while.  She was so new she doesn't focus yet.  And then I had to toddlers climb up in my lap, hand me a picture bible and tell me to read.  We spent the better part of an hour "reading" through the Old Testament in this Bible.  It was precious because one of them knew some of the stories that the pictures went with and would get really excited about them.

I'm not sure what it is about being around children that makes me feel like a real person, but something just fits.  (I know that it's because I'm a lady and I was made for that but it feels like something so much more then that.)  I love knowing that there is this little person who doesn't know much about the world except for the love they have been and are being shown.  It blows my mind and makes me want to be a better person.  I want more times like this in my life.  Yeah.

Mel C