Hallelujah !

Today, while attending the baptism of our two great-granddaughters, Margaret and Leslie Owens, at St. Thomas’ Church in Fairfield, Connecticut, this is what ran through my mind.

>>=<< Had I not met Lenore 67 years ago, it is for certain that our son Fred would not have been born ~ similarly, had Paula’s parents, Henry and Mary Chartier never met, Paula would not have been born ~ had Fred never met Paula, Amy would never have been born ~ had Kay and John Owens never met, Kevin would not have been born ~ had Amy never met Kevin, those blessed little twins, Margaret and Leslie could never have been conceived >>=<<>>=<<

Just think, had only a single one of the above events not occurred, there would be no Margaret and no Leslie. But may I ask you as I am now asking myself, was that sequence I cited, one long chain of accidental coincidence? Or would it be presumptuously arrogant of us to believe that Margaret and Leslie are the sacred products of foreordained, divine design? I opt to believe the latter. But in all candor, the answer to those questions can never be known.

Nevertheless, regardless of how this very remarkable combination of circumstances came to be, each one of us celebrated the baptism of infant Margaret and infant Leslie with unbounded reverence and joy. And we are all joined in wishing that these two new grafts to the branches of our family tree live long, happy and productive lives.

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