Miracle of a Baby

Last week I had the delight of meeting Gabriella Grace Lowe. She was born just one month ago, and is about the size of a large football when she's curled up.

I have never been much of a baby person. They are cute, I like to hold them for a while, and then I'm fine giving them back to Mom. But Gaby arrived into the world at a particular moment for me. This year has been marked by death - 3 loved ones of my house passed away within 6 months. I am still working through my own grief (as are my roommates), and not a day has gone by without my thinking of my friend.

So when I met Gaby, I was amazed by this tiny little girl, created by God - the giver of life. She's beautiful and helpless and already so loved. God breathed life into this girl, formed her in her mother's womb, and knows all of the days of her life that are before her. And according to scripture, there is no death, only inevitable departure from this world for another reality.

Aside from the dear friends her parents have been to me, Gaby will be special to me for reminding me in painful death that God is in fact the life-giver.