Sleep Regression and the Patience of God
Well, it's been a quiet season on the blog, although not so much in our lives -- my days are full of caring for a small person and her growing personality, and there's all the regular running of a household and being part of a church community and celebrating holidays with friends and family even as we grieve the losses brought by the past year. My head is bursting with words and thoughts, but my fingers are a bit out of the habit of writing. So maybe it's time to get back into it. I had no idea that having a child would lead me to think so much about theology, but my goodness, it does. Loving Isabel is totally different than love that I've experienced before, even though other relationships have held hints of what this type of love is like. I loved my students; I've loved friends' kids, but it is not the same. None of those relationships demanded, day after day (and night after night), that I give it my attention, time and energy. None of the people in t