It boggles the mind.

They change as quickly as light sparkling through a crystal in the sunshine. One moment so funny it's hard to drive as they cut up in the back seat, the next squabbling over something so ridiculous it makes you want to rip your hair out.

Talking until your ears bleed....moving until cement child sculpture sounds like a reasonable activity.....then so still and angelic in sleep that you creep ever closer to see their chest rise a millimetre under their pajamas.....

Joy, frustration, love, anger, tears of angst and joy...sometimes both at the same time. Never before has any human being pushed as many of your buttons in such a complete and random pattern.

And yet....you would without a second's hesitation lay down your life. It boggles the mind....and yet. Someone feels this way about me. He willingly gave Himself up...to be tortured, beaten, and publicly humiliated. For me. It boggles the mind.