Haghia Koinonia

Each of my children's births were special. Unexpected, longed for, and surprised by joy. All of them.

Their one-year birthdays, impossible for me to foresee 20 years ago, were delightful in ways I never could have envisioned. Perhaps it is because the focus was not on me, but on the joys of my heart. But each one, meager or grandiose, were an echo of a gift, a charizomai, a χαρίζομαι, to me. 

All amazingly graceful moments. All of them.

But on February 18th, 2018, witnessing my firstborn, my Jewel, take communion for the first time...that was something special.