Babies and change (dime a dozen)

      I am trying to capture the thoughts I had swirling in my head as I sat in the bathtub.  I don't plan to write a lot but I just wanted to say that,
A.  Miriam Jubliee is born! How gracious and wondrous and thunderous an event that was and it's altered our world irrevocably ever since then.  I will absolutely tell the story on here at some point, just not now.
B.  I am long overdue for a post and I also need to put creativity as a priority even though it's difficult with such a tiny one to care for at all times (literally, all times I am thinking of her at least in the back of my mind, it's really full-on to be a parent).
C.  We are going to visit Minnesota soon. In merely a week's time we shall be enveloped in a winter wonderful-land with warm friends and family.
      Although my thoughts feel lucid I am writing kind of disjointed.  I guess that's okay.  I just want to get it all down.  I won't apologize anymore.
      Having a baby is truly a unique (yet nearly universal strangely) experience.  I was just thinking earlier; how is it that every person, every singular soul, came into the world as a small innocent being?  It's just completely crazy when one starts to truly ponder it.
     Another thought I had worth sharing: since we have come to Virginia I have found my life to be quite different and I'm sure that difference will only be augmented now that we are visiting Minnesota several months after leaving.  I am sure I will see things quite peculiarly.  I am also confronted with the inevitability of change.  A few years ago I thought my life couldn't be much better and I really was thriving and didn't want it to change.  Now, it's a few years later and although I miss some things I have grown and others have grown and changed too and we just cannot go back and that's okay. It's been said a bajillion times but I guess that's because it's so true: nothing is constant except change.  Right, I guess that leads to theology and thinking on God but that's a whole 'nother post.  In a way, though, I guess that's a good note to leave on: I am glad God is a constant in a world of change.

Psalm 46:10
God is our refuge and strength,
    an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
    and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam
    and the mountains quake with their surging.