Friday, September 24, 2010

DADDY

I am a dad...
There is another person on planet earth who is completely dependent on me. This is what I have learned so far:
  • He prefers being held to being put down.
  • He cannot clean himself up and needs me to do that.
  • Sometimes he poops while I am holding him.
  • He has peed on me while I was cleaning him.
  • Neither of the previous two scared me away, I still loved him and cleaned him up and held him afterwords.
  • He is the cutest baby I have ever seen (because he looks a little like me and mostly like my wife) yeah, he bears my image.
  • He is incapable of earning my affection because he already has it.
  • He has nothing to offer me that I need, but I can't get enough of him.
  • His value is not in what he does (pee and poop) his value is in the fact that he is mine.
  • I love it when he looks at me.
  • It breaks my heart when he cries.
  • I love this time but I also look forward to the day when he will talk to me.
Suddenly I understand the love of God a little better.

Just a meandering thought...