When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.
True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.
So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.
I've had an absolutely magical run.
