Second grade. First Holy Communion. How did we get here? It seems just yesterday we were rushing to the hospital to welcome you prematurely and a whisper after that, you were being baptised. But as I think about it and look at pictures, I know it was almost eight years ago that you came wailing into our world. M2, you have some months yet until you receive Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament for the first time, but I know that those months will fly past like so much wind. I am not ready. This step forward in your faith journey means new challenges and new blessings. It also means that as much as I joke about putting a brick on your head to stop you from getting any bigger, you are still growing up. I am grateful for the blessing of this new chapter in your life and despite the bittersweet pangs I feel, I know that when at last you approach the table of the Lord, I will weep tears of joy and I will be ready.
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