I have just heard that Tim and Sara Ordway have had, after a laborious labour, a little girl called Lucy who is 7lb 4oz. I am so excited and wish all of them the very best.
The coming of a baby to a family is an interesting thing...
When Jon and Jo had Matilda they said it was a community baby and sure enough within a very short time she had been baby Jesus three times and probably talked to by every person in our town. She will be brought up by her parents, by her church and hopefully by her community as well.
I can ask for no more for Lucy and can't wait to meet her.
The concept of the Commmunity baby is really important I think and even is the basis of why we all pay for the schooling of children even when we don't have them ourselves.
If as John Donne says no man is an island but all part of a great continent then if the death of someone effects us all so does the birth of someone does as well.
So let's all raise a glass and give a prayer of thanks for Lucy.
We don't need to go to the extent that my father did, when my brother was born he wasn't there, he went out for a drink with the doctor!
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