Birth Day

The spiritual gift of salvation is the greatest of all, but the best physical gift I've received is my daughter. On the day she was born, I went to the nursery and sat down in an oak Windsor rocking chair. My daughter was handed to me for her first bottle. As I held her, all of the possibilities for her life played out before me, and I felt the love and responsibility and deep bond towards her that somehow God feels for me. I sang to her and told her silly jokes as she slept in my arms. There is no material thing on earth that compares with that.