Family

I never really understood the idea of family until now. There is something about having child that makes Pete and I's relationship so much more complete. There is definitely a sense of the divine in being a family- like this is how it was meant to be. Although I believe family means community, neighbors, church members, friends and all those we would call our "village," there is something about the experience of our mini intimate family that helps me to now better be family on the broader sense. I was looking at Nori one day and thought of the mathematics of her making. I was thinking that it took 8 of our grandparents, 4 of her grandparents, and 2 of us to make one of her. It seems that God meant to keep bringing us together in procreation because we can't make a baby by ourselves, then it would just be one to one to one and we would all be doing our own thing. I also have been pondering why we are born as children. If we popped out at age 20 as productive members of society I think the world would be so different. In having babies always among us we are slowed down, brought back to innocence and patience. And in teaching and nurturing we are taught and nurtured. Babies bring us back to God in the circle of the world family.