Beginnings

A baby girl’s earthly life began 7 months ago.  I recently knit a sweater, cap, and bootees from my mother’s old-fashioned knitting patterns and gave them to her mother today at a baby shower.  It was a time to celebrate beginnings: a baby girl’s conception, her forthcoming delivery and emergence, the dawn of a family.

Pregnancy is like an introduction - a foreword or preface, the front matter of human life - in that it declares the beginning of a unique person with a story like none other on earth.  It is a privilege to be included in this phase, and I hope to continue to be part of this baby's story in the chapters soon to follow.