Pastor’s Lenten Blog 15

Within a span of 24 hours, I got to hold and to bless (to the extent that I have the power to bless) a 27-hour-old baby, then to spend a couple of hours with my youngest daughter, who at one point in her life was 27 hours old but is now a grown young woman of 19 years.  The two somehow connected in my mind; I remember holding Katie in her early hours and days, but now I see this beautiful young woman and marvel at what babies can, and do, become.

Between today and her early days, there’s been a lot of time passed with a lot of memories, and yet it seems like very little time at all.  I wonder, does God remember me as an infant?  Does God hold in the divine Mind all of my growing up (still a work in progress), as well as my mistakes, my sins, my gifts, and my goofinesses?   I think so; I believe so, but I also believe that God cherishes, in grace, the wholeness of the person that I have been, am now, and still may become — maybe even more than I do!

God, help me to cherish me the way I cherish my daughters, and help me to grow in cherishing You.