Beatitudes, Baby Style

Today Jonah attended a funeral service for the husband of his first-cousin-twice-removed on his paternal-maternal side.  To most, "Al's grandson".  With an even more tenuous relationship, it was difficult to explain why I was there except to care for Jonah.

Everyone loved having a baby around, and we received many compliments "is he always this good?" and words of appreciation "just when I thought I wouldn't make it, I heard a little baby babble and got through it."  And so we discovered that in times of mourning, a baby is far more healing than flowers.