reverent irreverence: So happy to introduce

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

So happy to introduce

our new grandson, Jude! Facebook friends met him last night, and we will meet him in the flesh this weekend! This makes three boys and one very happy family. I don't have details at this point, but does anyone really care when he got here and how much he weighs? We're just delighted he has arrived!

7 comments:

Nancy said...: Congratulations on the new addition to your family. Let the spoiling begin!; 7:46 AM, July 12, 2011
Sandy said...: He is precious! Congratulations!; 8:29 AM, July 12, 2011
The Bug said...: Woo hoo!; 8:44 AM, July 12, 2011
Terri said...: Always good to have the little ones delivered safe and sound! Congratulations!; 10:47 AM, July 12, 2011
Jan said...: How wonderful and sweet! Congratulations!!; 10:31 PM, July 12, 2011
JulesinParadise said...: Welcome to the world, little Jude. Enjoy Grandma!; 5:07 AM, July 14, 2011
Janet M said...: Have fun meeting him and spending time with the other boys, he looks precious.; 5:50 AM, July 14, 2011

gems

From the 2003 memorial service for slain reporter Daniel Pearl (directed to Daniel Pearl's father):

"We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral equivalency of our Abrahamic faiths. If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind and soul, 'Sh'ma Israel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai echad; Hear o Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One,' not only today am I a Jew, but I have always been one, Mr. Pearl."

"If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul and to love for my fellow human beings what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one, Mr. Pearl. We are here especially to seek your forgiveness and that of your family for what has been done in the name of Islam."
Imam Feisal Rauf

There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.
Michael Mahoney

“Give me a candle of the Spirit, O God, as I go down into the deeps of my being. Show me the hidden things, the creatures of my dreams, the storehouse of forgotten memories and hurts. Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name. Give me freedom to grow, so that I may become that self, the seed of which you planted in me at my making. Out of the deeps I cry to you, O God.”
--Prayer at night by Jim Cotter

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

So happy to introduce

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