A Mother's Smile: Nature baby

Here's Daddy and son on our first adventure in the woods with the hiking backpack. Hopefully there will be some more before he's too big to ride on our backs!

The Name Explained

The child's 'I' awakens in the experience of a 'Thou': in its mother's smile through which it learns that it is contained, affirmed, and loved in a relationship which is incomprehensively encompassing, already actual, sheltering, and nourishing...The experience of being granted entrance into a sheltering and encompassing world is one which for all incipient, developing, and mature consciousness cannot be superseded. Therefore it is right that the child should glimpse the Absolute, 'God', first in its mother, its parents, and that only in a second and third stage does it have to learn to distinguish the love of God from the love which it has experienced in this way.
~Hans Urs Von Balthasar

A Mother's Smile

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Nature baby

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