Behold the children.
They have come forth from the great womb of the earth.
They have come forth to stand with star dust in their hair,
with the rush of planets in their blood,
their hearts beating out the seasons of eternity,
with a shining in their eyes like the sunlight,
with the hands to shape with that same force that shaped them out of the raw stuff of the universe.
When a child is born it is the symbol of all birth and life,
and therefore all must rejoice and smile,
and all must lose their hearts to a child.
– excerpt of a Unitarian Universalist child welcoming ceremony
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Scott
I absolutely love that.