My son and his wife are expecting their first child.
Over the last several months since they shared the news with us, I have watched them move through the transition from being a couple to becoming a family. The expectation of their child, our grandchild, reawakens within me the pensive, hopeful longing that comes with the birth of a child.

While most of the time I think and talk about God differently, today I find myself wondering if, as God waits for that which is new or that which is new within me or that which is new among us to be born, there is that same pensive longing and hope similar to that which I feel right now reaching out from the deep love of today towards some promised, possible tomorrow.