Little Rose Ida is brought into the room for the first time after her bath! She is wide awake and looks excited to meet her 3 siblings for the first time! The two have come from school and have been waiting with anticipation for the first sight of their new sister - now life made visible! She has arrived! We are forever grateful and rejoice to have her here to love and to nurture in faith and life! Mary is saying that she will teach her about the farm and the animals - "She will be a farmgirl like me!" Simon is a wonderfully protective and loving oldest brother.
He gently holds her and protects her from little Dave's hands reaching for her. They seem to look into each other's eyes for quite a while - Simon is now able to see that the "pattern works!" He felt that since it was boy-girl-boy... that Rose had to be a girl to keep the pattern going. He is convinced that the Lord has a pattern in mind for his family, but no matter what he is overjoyed to hold his precious little sister, Rose Ida - life made visible! So special today in our shared morning prayers for Pat and I to pray for Rose by name for the first time! Pat prayed that she may continue to be a LIGHT to the world... I had to squeeze his hand at that point! How I love my husband for revealing the Holy Spirit's call to have our domestic Church raise LIGHTS to the world! I am out to move some gates, but will return to this later. It is such a glorious day! I am sitting here with the window open and the freshly washed air flowing over and around me! Thank you, Lord, for making LIFE visible!
It's funny how the things you are experiencing in your life make the Word come to life for us in different ways! I know that when John wrote in I John 1 about "life was made visible"... he is writing about Christ/God coming into the world first as a tiny infant like Rose - totally dependent on her loving family. And later as a grown sinless man, who was the innocent Lamb of God led to the slaughter for our sins! He brought unto us Eternal LIFE and it became visible to us! It became attainable for us to have and to hold ever within us and within our domestic Church/family! Another phrase in the psalm used in morning prayer touched me due to the experience of Rose Ida coming into the world..."All the works of the Lord are to be trusted. He fills the earth with his love." Psalm 33 Have you heard people with many children say that a new child doesn't divide your love - she just makes it bigger? So true! It seems that the love of a family expands and grows with each unique and precious new member! Thank you, Jesus, for filling the earth with LOVE in the new and glorious little one - Rose Ida Lanoue!
I know that our Blessed Mother, as well as Ruth, do not look at their precious newborns and think about the pain they are to endure in their lifetime - that Most Precious and Cherished Cross, that is part of all of our lives! Yet, Ruth just described her first night with "visible life," Rose Ida, as one where she was wanting to nurse continually and not yet getting milk to satisfy her. "I thought about giving her some formula, but then knew that the more she would nurse the quicker my milk will come in, so I just put her on and went to sleep." Already little Rose is experiencing her first ever hunger with a purpose of getting the lifegiving milk from her mother. With her constant nursing - Ruth will maybe have milk in abundance in short order! "Now I am her pacifier." She stopped nursing David about 3 years ago, so it has been a while... I can sense that she is calm and happy to have this experience again! Thank you, Lord!
The Gospel today is from our amazing LOVE and LIGHT apostle - John 12! "I came into the world as LIGHT...I did not come to speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal LIFE." John 12: 44-50 Jesus, we are enthralled with the humble beauty of new life! We are filled with more and more love as our earthly family grows to contain each one that you have called by name and numbered each hair of their heads - that was a lot of counting for our brandnew little, Rose Ida! She is so content and at peace nestled in the loving arms of her family. We think today of all those that have empty arms, aching to hold a little one. It is hard to trust and be patient with losses or infertility. Ruth has embraced a special calling to help women that face these issues in her Creighton Model training and now an instructor! May she be used by you to help other women embrace the values and teachings of the Church as they follow the path of marriage and family. Thank you for her calm and trusting life of family/sacrament of marriage/love of Your Church with all of its' Wisdom and Truth! May she be a shining lamp on the lampstand for many to come to know your Way, your Truth, and your LIFE! Jesus, we trust in you. Amen and Halleluia, Halleluia, Halleluia, Halleluia!
Bless-bless, Barb
She looks a lot like my girls - maybe Susan/Hallel the most, and then my granddaughter, Therese, looked almost the same too! So special in every way!
Psalm 139
12 "even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you."
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