The Psalmist writes: "...in the beauty of holiness have I begotten you, like dew from the womb of the morning."

Such love God has for each of us...and such a gift for each day of living. As I walk through the hospital corridors and nursing home rec rooms, as I weep with families whose daughters find themselves fat and ugly, whose sons make incredibly bad choices in order to be cool, I pray that on that day, in God's good time, each of us shall know that we are precious to God and loved just as we are. Perhaps when Jesus went out in the cool of the dawn, it was to walk barefoot through the dew and to remember that, no matter how ugly it got, God had begotten him in the beauty of holiness...