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A good friend of mine, the author of daily Odes to Mental Midgetry, recently had the pleasure of becoming a father for the first time. In my own joy for his burgeoning adventure into fatherhood, I once again reflect on my own daughter, who is now 21 months old. Though I'm sure that discipline and training will be an issue for many years down the road, I must say that despite these inevitable challenges that there is nothing about her that I do not, or even cannot, enjoy. Typically in this world when someone asks a new parent what they like best about being a new parent, they will say such things as, "it's fun to watch them learn something new each day," or "it's amazing how they're this tiny person and everything is a new adventure to them." While those things are true, when I watch my daughter - just simply watch her - I cannot shake the feeling that the experience is all together much more significant, precious, and even spiritual.

The creating God does not reach the goal of His creation until He has set over agaginst Him His image in man. From this last fact it is plain that the self-revelation of God, the unveiling of His being, is the final end of the creation of the world; or, to express it more generally, that the whole world serves to reveal the divine glory, and is thereby the object of divine joy. -- Gustav Oehler, 1873

Well said, Gustav.