"The Light Divine"...that graces and blesses our lives...Grins and Giggles

"The Light Divine" ...My Sweet Princess Daughter, Melody, sent me Love, Light and a blessing by way of a few minutes of a wonderful video clip of Baby Liam (3 months old)"Grins and Giggles" and it took me back many years....when she was just a tiny infant herself....

This is one of my favorite poems of all time...

Day Old Child
My day old child lay in my arms, 
With my lips against his ear. 
I whispered strongly, "How I wish-- 
I wish that you could hear,
I've a hundred wonderful things to say, 
(a tiny cough and a nod), 
hurry, hurry, hurry and grow 
So I can tell you about God." 
My day-old baby's mouth was still 
And my words only tickled his ear, 
But a kind of light passed through his eyes, 
And I saw this thought appear: 
"How I wish I had a voice and words, 
I've a hundred things to say. 
Before I forget, I'd tell you of God -- 
I left Him yesterday." 
--Carol Lynn Pearson
As I relish looking at my wonderful grandson's face, I remember....I am blessed to, once again see that "Divine Spark" that I so often enjoyed while holding my own babies (his own mother, the first of five!) when they were little. I am overwhelmed with love and gratitude for that Light that babies bring to Us!

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

     Hath had elsewhere its setting,

          And cometh from afar:

     Not in entire forgetfulness,

     And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

     From God, who is our home:

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Shades of the prison-house begin to close

     Upon the growing Boy,

But He beholds the light, and whence it flows,

     He sees it in his joy;

The Youth, who daily farther from the east

     Must travel, still is Nature's Priest,

     And by the vision splendid

     Is on his way attended;

At length the Man perceives it die away,

And fade into the light of common day.-William Worthsworth