tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751051528365447234.post6512455344079509043..comments2023-04-08T04:21:57.037-05:00Comments on made for JOY: Baby JOYMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09230149152827999152noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751051528365447234.post-76767275692291504522009-07-29T06:54:23.841-05:002009-07-29T06:54:23.841-05:00I love it!I love it!Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230149152827999152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751051528365447234.post-76624277009694806252009-07-28T12:44:46.539-05:002009-07-28T12:44:46.539-05:00Your opening paragraph here reminded me of Chester...Your opening paragraph here reminded me of Chesterton's essay <i>In Defence of Baby Worship</i> — one of the first essays of his I read, and which remains one of my favorites. It includes this:<br /><br /><i>The essential rectitude of our view of children lies in the fact that we feel them and their ways to be supernatural while, for some mysterious reason, we do not feel oursleves or our own ways to be supernatural. The very smallness of children makes it possible to regard them as marvels; we seem to be dealing with a new race, only to been through a microscope. I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small. . . we feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that [God] might feel. . .</i>John Jansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08241558776415884637noreply@blogger.com