In 1990 I became a mom for the very first time. I did not know a love so great, so all encompassing. I thought I did… with my family and even my husband, but when that adorable little girl was placed on my chest — Boom! She was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on and my heart exploded with a love like no other.

To be honest, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to have second child. I wasn’t sure that I could love another child the way I loved my first. But my dear husband said that if we could, we should. We should give our precious girl a sibling, a person that she could love and support and be supported by when we are no longer around.

In 1993 our second was born. I immediately loved this little boy but I was so anxious to see my girl, who was at home with her grandma. And if I am completely honest, I wondered if I could love him as much as my first?

At some point a nurse came to take my sweet boy to do whatever tests they needed to do. As I lay in the hospital bed I could hear him crying from down the hall. I could hear the distinct cry of my baby (over the others babies) and in that moment something came over me, like a mama bear instinct. I got out of bed, stormed down the hall and picked up my crying boy. As I was soothing him, I told the nurse that when they were ready they could come to me, they were not to let my baby cry unattended ever again.

I took him back to my room where I feel madly in love with my other little miracle. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on and my heart exploded with a love like no other.

Children can do that. They can make your heart expand and explode with love. When you think you don’t have room in your heart for another - God provides us the ability to love - to love fully and to love unconditionally! Just as God loves each of us.

I didn’t think I would ever feel that way again, until today when I held my precious granddaughter for the first time. She is the most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on and in an instant, my heart expanded and exploded exponentially with a love like no other!

My sweet boy is now a dad and I am now a Nana.

I am so grateful.

Mom, dad and baby are well. Nana is having a moment ;)

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another…. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(1 John 4:9-11,16)