Only God knows

I realised, part of why I want to have a next kid so soon is because, more than the happiness that J has given us, she has also brought much joy to people around us. Her animated sounds and expressions, her little milestones, her more than occasional tantrums and turnabout of moods - all these have more than triggered laughter and smiles all round family and friends.

We adore her, and we are sure we will embrace our next child with as much love. However he turns out.

"God knows best what is needful for us, and all that He does is for our good. If we knew how much He loves us, we should be always ready to receive equally and with indifference from His hand the sweet and the bitter; all would please that came from Him. The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light. When we see them in the hand of God, who dispenses them: when we know that it is our loving Father, who abases and distresses us: our sufferings will lose their bitterness, and become even matter of consolation."