Awe - reconnects us as it can take us out of ourselves and being amazed at things outside of ourselves

Happy, happy news!

There are moments that stop you completely.
Moments that don’t ask you to think or analyze, only to feel.
Almost two weeks ago, we met our first grandchild, born on April 8th at
11:00 pm 🩵 Dolan Patrick Sullivan III ~ "Tripp." 7lbs 6oz.

Sobbing as I zoomed in on the photo they sent just after he was born, his eyes open, resting on his mama’s chest, looking up at his beautiful mama, Maddie. The tiniest details… the curve of a little ear. A sense of awe came over me.

How does this happen? How does the body know to create not just one ear, but two, and the intricate shape of it? It brought me back to when I had my own children…that same sense of wonder.

You watch a baby grow in the mama's belly for nine months, but somehow it still takes your breath away, the miracle of it all. A body growing another body… forming legs and toes and ears and noses, each with its own unique shape.

I felt completely overwhelmed. And the tears… they weren’t from sadness.
They were from joy, he's arrived, he's arrived, and from something deeper. Something closer to awe.

Awe reconnects us, taking us out of ourselves and into being amazed by things outside ourselves.
It softens us. Expands us. 
Reminds us how much there is that we don’t fully understand, and don’t need to. This baby… this moment…feels like "awe" embodied…. Sign up for our newsletter to see the full post.