Amazed

Amazed at the new life that God has given my husband and me in our beautiful daughter Olivia,
I want to share some quotes (slightly modified) from a devotional book for new moms -

O Lord, you have examined my heart
and known everything about me.
You know when I sit down or when I stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I am far away.
Psalm 139:1-2

"When my [daughter] was handed to me for the first time, I feel the sudden dissonance of greeting a stranger I thought I knew before...On the one level it seems perfectly normal to have this little body that I have been carrying for nine month now sharing my personal space. In fact handing [her] to someone else feels like cutting off my arm... On another level [she] is a totally different person, wholly separate from me. [She] makes movements I don't anticipate... I am the only world [she] has ever known, but we are still a long way from really knowing each other. In the meantime I am grateful for what is strange to me about my [daughter] - or about me to [her] - is not strange to God. He knows my [daughters] personality and the paths [she] will choose."
(Mommy Time by Sarah Arthur)