The world changed a little today. But just a little change in the world can be so significant. A little change in the climate, a small shift of its tilt, a few miles more distant from the sun---all could be majorly impactful. Today's change is a new life born into the human family; the most influential family on earth. What can this life mean? Think of Jesus, Buddha, Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Billy Graham, Mother Teresa, Ghandi, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jr. Or my mom, dad, grandmother--I can't count the number of lives that would be diminished without their influence. A new world of potential has been born. And my deepest prayers go up to God and out to all those who will influence this life: Please God, may this life add to the Life, Love, Peace, and Joy You gladly impart to the human family as and to the degree that we open our hearts to You. May Nolan Bradley be a channel of the Light that shined upon the Garden of Eden, restoring some of the peace and innocence that existed there before we misused the freedom You gave us. Give us grace to impart to him the best that is within us; and may he multiply that goodness with his own unique gifts. Make the world a brighter place for many through this life, as it has already been brightened for us, his family, by his birth. Bless his parents to provide for him a shelter from emotional turmoil, so that his spirit can be free to blossom in the sunlight of peace and security. May he deeply absorb the Truth of Christ, that his soul may be sustained through the tribulations of this world that he will surely endure. And may all his tribulations serve to strengthen him into mature manhood and temper the tools of his personality, that they may used to minister, serve, and fashion a more heavenly existence on earth.
Nolan Bradley Graham. Born 10:50 AM, 1/28/2015 In the Year of Our Lord
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