Just when I thought my eyes exhausted all the possibilities, God amazed me.
Over 30 years ago, I spotted love in the gleam of a man's eye. He was young, independent, and blonded by the sun. The love, I noticed, was not directed to me as much as it was lavished on the Lord. This made me love him all the more.
Then his love gave me a son and I was raptured all over again. I felt like a Queen put in charge of a royal prince. The first time I laid my tired eyes on him, he gave me a smile and a coo that took my breath away. He grew to be my best friend; someone in whom love could trust.
Five years later, the look of love took on a feminine side. She eased into my life with a redeeming quality that refreshed my passion and cultivated my wonder. Love looked exciting and mirrored me.
Six years and two lost-loves later, the unexpected look of love whisked me away and captured my heart once again. This time, the neediness was intoxicating. We mutually met on equal terms and my appreciation for him grows every day.
Last, but not least, the Lord had mercy on me and extended His grace in the form of an angel. Her look of love was that of prophecy and promise fulfilled. This kind of love stretched from my past to my future.
But today, love took me by surprise. It's now coupled together with treasures a princess brought to my prince, including the richness of her heritage. Along with the gleam he inherited from his father, and the depths of my eternal gaze, this blended little one emerged with 10
fingers and 10 toes, skin as soft as silk and the face of an angel. Her cry is for the Lord of Hosts and her voice will be heard among the nations, preparing the way for her generation. With her full lips and button nose, she ransacks our hearts and steals a grand new love now awakened.Today, this is what love looks like.
(Maggie Elizabeth Larson)
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Oh, this makes me cry! Beautiful!
Chrissy, this “poem” is just incredible! Wow! Your words, took my breath away. I cannot wait to welcome this little one, into the Kingdom of Believers (Our Risen Lord)! Love, Mary
Wow! I'm crying too! Maggie is precious!
Wow! that poem was very touching mrs,Larson. I don't understand much about what it is like to have a child, but I am sure one day it will be such a joyful time in my life! I am sure I will have alot of affection towards my gift that God gives me.
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mslemaire,
Thanks for crying with me!
Mary,
Maggie can not wait to meet her Grand Aunt. Will you teach her to say your name next week? I know you will surely try!
Mrs. Brooks,
You and I have shed a few tears together, haven't we. There's nothing like a good movie to get the faucets dripping. But nothing tops those moments in life that make us leak! I appreciate you!!!
Amy,
When you hold the gift in your arms, promise me you will hold it tight enough and long enough to watch it grow before your eyes.
Wow Mrs. Larson,
Your poem is amazing! Thank you for sharing that with us! I hope that eventually I can write like that.
Wow Mrs. Larson,
A wonderful poem! I hope that I could eventually write like that!
Thanks Demetri,
I have no doubt in my mind that you will. You are gifted with your pen and have no trouble expressing yourself. Keep pushing to please the Master!
Aww. How Precious! :)
I'm so excited for you...I know you'll have so much fun, I love babies sooo much. They are such a wonderful gift. ENJOY EVERYTHING! :)
Congratulations
Well I'm not exactly sure how we're supposed to respond to this, but you sound like a very blessed woman Mrs. Larson :] I don't know how it is to have children, but I know that my niece is capable of making me smile, no matter how naughty she can be. I suppose that is incentive enough to have children? xD Have a wonderful day, Alaina.
wow i love it and the baby I think baby girls are sooo cute
Alaina, Blessed is an understatement! I feel very privileged to be a grand mother and especially privileged to be Maggie's.
As far as your niece or any other naughty stinker, love always covers a multitude of sins!
Thanks, Shay - I plan on being the funnest grandma ever! In the meantime, I expect watching her grow will be a thrill ride!!!
This made me think of the Song. "What is Love."
Um. I can't really relate to this, but congratulations. I remember when my brother was born. It was "fun" to say the least.
Good Job I think love looks like that too!
Thanks, Hunter - She is the picture of beauty as well!
Kyle,
I'll have to find that song and see what I think. Her birth was fun for me . . . waiting instead of doing all the work!
Dallas,
Not all baby girls are as cute as this one. She is amazingly beautiful!
Congrats!! The baby is adorable!! I love your writing, it is beautiful!! I love babies, and after babysitting my brother for awhile I can truly say I appreciate the amazing gift God gives us - babies!
May God be with the cutie everyday! :)
Alyssa,
Thanks! You have a bundle fresh from heaven yourself. There is nothing as good as the smell of a newborn. I think heaven must smell like this!
I am not excatly sure how to respond to this but I believe love is finding the person you will spend the reest of your life with and love is when someone holds their newborn baby(or grandchild)in their arms. To me thats what love looks like.
I have to admit that is one cute baby. And I too think that infants are what love looks like. At least for the first couple of weeks. Then your ears and nose start to override your eyes and make you perceive them as little devils. But then they cuten up again around age 2, so it's all good.
Mrs. Chrissy...This was an amazing blog! You are so descriptive in your writing! And you just draw readers in and touch their hearts :)
I have not exactly felt that motherly love yet...except the rebuking part...I feel like I'm always telling my brother what to do when I see him doing something wrong or about to do something not so wise (I should probably show some more love in letting him go...but I really care about him and have done the same things he has before, not without suffering consequences! Then other times...I'm just annoyed :P). Still, I'm sure it will be an amazing, CRAZY experience that I will, in the future, enjoy!
But anyways, this is what I thought of when I read your question:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39 (ESV)
HIS love is unfathomable!!!!!!!!!!
You are right, Daniel. They do put out very obnoxious sounds along with very nauseating odors. Though I tend to think that every stage has it's "cuteness."
Christy,
I am so glad God gave us a variety of ways to see love. Today, it looks one way; tomorrow it will look different. May God bless you with the love of your life and then one day, a newborn of your own to hold. :)
Tina,
I appreciate you thoughts and take the compliment with high regard. You are a very descriptive writer yourself.
Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, and sword are words we rarely associate to love but as you quoted, they describe love as well. For love also sacrifices and suffers. May we enter into to this kind of fellowship.
Dear Chrissy,
I just wanted you to know I read your blog and it is beautiful....I Love it!! You did a great job as usual. I am so glad your grandbaby & daughter in law are doing well. That was exciting news...
Charline
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