Baby Noah is born: Last Saturday night I helped, indeed I was honored to help, my sister in-law deliver her baby boy into the world. Judith sat watched over us, and our children with their reassuring presence provided comfort and security for Carol as she labored through the previous day and night. The children are old hands at childbirth now, they made themselves busy making sure chilled fruit juice and ice chips were always on hand. When just after dawn little Noah finally put in his debut appearance on this stage we call life Carol’s husband Geoff cried upon seeing his new son. Noah spent the his first hour of life resting on his mother’s breast as we left them to get to know each other in peace and quiet, this what I feel is the perfect start to life, it took me back almost a year to the birth of our own Mariaske.
So Congratulations to Carol and Geoff, and welcome to baby Noah Joost. You came into this world peacefully and calmly in your parents home and I will pray that same loving spirit carries you through life.