Ozark Oddments: Happy Birthday

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Happy Birthday

A few hours after our son was born, the obstetrician who was supposed to have delivered him (someone else did the job) came in to check on me and wondered if we were going to name him Abraham in honor of President Lincoln.

Now that I think about it, I believe the doctor’s first name was Abraham too.

Abraham is a good Biblical name—a fine name indeed—but we had another choice in mind. We picked Nathaniel because it meant “gift from God,” and we felt God truly had given us a very special gift. We weren’t planning to have children “for a while,”so when I found I was pregnant, we believed it was God’s hand on our lives to bring it about.

I am so thankful I had the opportunity to be a mother and to watch a little boy...

grow into a man

Remembering him on his birthday.

2 comments:

Far Side of Fifty said...: As a Mom you remember your children every single day, take comfort in your good memories:); 7:01 PM
Elli H. Radinger said...: Hi Leilani.
I would love to send you something from Germany. But I don't know where to send it. Could you please mail me and let me know?
info(at)elli-radinger.de

All the best
Elli; 1:50 AM

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"