And I Quote...

"There are few things that can inspire wonder like the birth of a child – the intricacy and beauty and messiness of it all.  Life is so fragile and so precious... Every breath is miracle. The same love that called the cosmos into existence beats inside my chest with every heartbeat. It’s all a gift. What does one do with this gift though? Clutch with white knuckles and try to hold on to it? That is useless. We cannot control when we were born, and we cannot control what will finally take our lives from us. It is not clutched, greedy fists that lead us to peace and joy in this life. Instead it is surrender. It is letting go of the control and the fear, and offering all we are in love, accepting any pain that might accompany it, all as a part of this beautiful gift that is life... In the face of such an enormous and magnificent universe, one can either create illusions of grandeur for himself or admit his insignificance in time and space with humility.  One can go through this life attempting to gain control or trying to gain life by holding on tenaciously; however, she will then certainly lose it.   Perhaps it is actually only in the “losing” of one’s life that one can truly find it." -Michael Gungor