AND NOW I KNOW

I thought the days of my children's births were the most joyous I would experience. And now I know I was wrong. I watched my daughter be baptized today. By her dad. And now I know that the day of my child's REBIRTH is the most joyous I will experience.
As I stood and listened to Paul speak some beautiful words about baptism and about our daughter, and as I watched him first hug her and then lead her into the water, I thought of a photo I keep in the drawer of my night stand. It is just a polaroid taken by an OB nurse minutes after Kayla was born. It is labeled "Baby girl Woolard and Dad." Paul is holding her and looking into her face and it looks like he is talking to her. Thinking of that photo, I realized that Paul held her in the first minutes of her life and now he is lifting her out of the water and holding her in the first minutes of her NEW life.

And now my daughter is my sister.

And I look forward to the journey we will walk together.