fill your home with them if you can
Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth I love my son. There is no darkness in a day that holds him. Whatever the world does to me between sunrise and sunset, it all falls away the moment I see his face. He does not know it yet, but he carries a light he did not make, and it spills into every room he enters. Children are one of the great mercies of this life. We speak of them as burdens sometimes, as expenses, as interruptions to our plans. But the truth is older and better than that. The Psalmist called them a heritage from the Lord, arrows in the hand of a warrior, and blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. A full quiver is a full life. They give the weary heart a reason to keep going. There are days when the workday tries to steal your joy, when a boss or a deadline or a failure sits on your chest like a stone. And then you come home, and a small voice calls your name, and the stone rolls away. No paycheck ever did that. No promotion ever will. The world can take a great deal f...