{"id":1757079,"date":"2022-11-30T13:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757079"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:17:31","slug":"a-thank-you-to-all-the-babies-who-share-their-joy-with-the-rest-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-thank-you-to-all-the-babies-who-share-their-joy-with-the-rest-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thank-You To All The Babies Who Share Their Joy With The Rest Of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-thank-you-to-all-the-babies-who-share-their-joy-with-the-rest-of-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757079&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>I do not have baby fever. When my little brother was born, and I discovered that my mother had to get a fluids IV in her arm, I swore off ever having children purely to avoid the IV needle. I\u2019ve since recanted my 3-year-old self\u2019s position (even after learning the needle isn\u2019t the hardest part, ha), and I fully hope that the Lord will bless my husband and me with children \u2014 but I\u2019m just not one of those girls who <em>loves<\/em> the idea of pregnancy and childbirth. Still, if you watch me in church on any given Sunday, chances are I\u2019m making googly eyes at whatever family\u2019s baby is sitting in front of us. <\/p>\n<p>In the grocery store checkout line, in the airport, in the coffee shop from which I\u2019m writing this where a pigtailed little girl sitting with her mother just waved what looked like a pizza crust at me \u2014 I dare you <em>not<\/em> to smile when a baby giggles at you. For a second, you get to see the world through a baby\u2019s eyes. <\/p>\n<p>Babies don\u2019t have their noses buried in phones, they don\u2019t awkwardly look down when they pass you, and they smile indiscriminately \u2014 they don\u2019t see what kind of clothes you\u2019re wearing, your skin color, or anything but a face to smile at. To be the beneficiary of such a smile is to receive joy, no matter if you have your own family at home, if you\u2019re an older parent reminiscing of \u201cthose days\u201d with your own children, if you\u2019re a young single who hopes for a family one day, or anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Especially at Christmastime, this unconditional warmth reminds us of the Christ child, whose indiscriminate love for the world is reflected by all the best things about friendly babies. By <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/john\/1-14.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">becoming flesh and making his dwelling among us<\/a>, Christ offered to the world the acceptance, joyfulness, humility, and otherworldly purity from whence springs all the goodwill smiling babies share with strangers. <\/p>\n<p>Just as we can miss the beaming faces of our infant brethren by being too preoccupied with our own affairs, we risk forgetting the Savior whose advent we are purportedly celebrating. Amid the commercialized busyness of the Christmas season, the innocent smiles of babies remind us not only of the infant King who condescended to walk among men but also of the posture our own hearts should have toward him. We are all created in God\u2019s image and are <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/matthew\/19-14.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> to look to Him with child-like faith so we might <em>become His children<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBehold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/1_john\/3-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writes<\/a> the apostle John, \u201cthat we should be called children of God!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the baby in my local coffee shop and all the other tots spreading their glee to strangers \u2014 thank you for sharing your Heaven-sent joy with us. And thanks, too, to all of the parents who juggle strollers, diaper bags, and squirming children in public. (I promise, if you\u2019re treating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their unconditional warmth reminds us of the Christ child, whose indiscriminate love for the world is reflected by the best things about friendly babies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1757082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}