Eden Rose turned one month today. How that can be?
What a glorious month this has been. Quiet days with limited responsibilities. Allowing for endless amounts of enjoying Eden.
Except it isn't at all endless. It's fleeting...far too fast.
That special and surreal newborn sensation that has settled into this home. That sacred link to The Almighty. It's precious and anything but permanent. And so, I have not allowed any demands on my time. I have ensured that life is simple and uncomplicated, because right now it is brimming with beauty. And life inevitably busies and that satiation of serenity will be fleeting.
A couple days ago, while holding Eden, Linley confidently and with no context declared, "She knows Heavenly Father." That pure, piercing feeling that this little being is fresh from our Father...she felt it. We all feel it. But life comes and clouds us, and that feeling is fleeting.
At the end of General Conference, when the choir sang "God Be With You Till We Meet Again," Eden perked up. Her head lifted and her eyes brightened. Almost like she had heard the hymn before. I choose to think that family and friends serenaded her as she left her premortal world to join our family here on earth. But her familiarity with the former, as we have all experienced, is fleeting.
And so, I'll continue to sit on the couch and snuggle and stare and nurse as the days flash before my eyes. I'll be content with the load of laundry still sitting in the dryer and the breakfast dishes left in the sink. I'll smile through the sleepless nights and I will sacrifice every second I can to make these fragile fragments freeze. Because whatever this masterful and majestic moment is, it is all too fleeting.
