Abby girl, God was showing off when he made you. That much is clear. You aren’t ordinary, little one. Not at all.
Baby Girl, your auntie has been a lot of places and done a lot of things and loved on a lot of precious children, but I can truly, truly say that I have never in my life seen something more beautiful than you. Never. You are the most incredible thing I have ever seen. It says in the Bible, in Job, that the beauty we see in this world is just the very outer fringes of God’s work. To look at you and know that the unbelievable beauty I see in you is but the outer fringes of the beauty of our God? WOW.
The day you were born, I saw my big brother, with an enormous smile on his face and a camera around his neck and tears in his eyes, become your daddy. I saw your daddy realize the impossible love he has for you.I saw your daddy realize the love that your grandparents have for him—I think that’s a love a person can only realize by having someone as precious as you. You have deepened my understanding of love, sweet girl—never before had I realized the depths to which a person could love—the depths to which I could love. You have deepened me.
News of your impending arrival, seven weeks early, drove me to my knees, and I tearfully asked your Maker to keep his hands gently around you and bring you safely into the world. I asked Him to keep your tiny body cradled protectively in his hands, I asked him to quickly fill your lungs with air, I asked him to keep your mommy safe and healthy, I asked him for the miracle that I witnessed firsthand when I got my first glimpse of your feisty little personality, just 3 hours after you were born. Baby, Jesus is your protector.
Abby, I hope you learn from an early age the love that your Maker and Creator has for you, his precious child. You’ll get a tiny glimpse of the love that your heavenly father has for you through experiencing the love that your daddy on earth has for you! The love of a father is a powerful thing, Baby—unmatchable, unconditional, the purest of pure. There’s absolutely nothing like it in the world. For the rest of my life, sweet girl, it will be my constant and earnest prayer that you will soon know and then quickly grow in and follow hard after the love of the one who gave his life for you. It’s amazing for me, your auntie, to realize that the overflowing love I have for you doesn’t compare to the love your daddy has for you, and his love doesn’t even begin to compare to the love your Father and Creator has for you! What a tremendous responsibility and huge honor it is for us—your family—to point you and direct you and lead you and walk with you toward Christ, the creator of your tiny body and the savior of the world.
Welcome to the family, little one! May the miracle of your birth be merely the beginning—just the very outer fringes—of an extraordinary testimony of his faithfulness to you!
I love you, Abigail, with a love that’s so much more than these words express.
I love you infinity.
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