Marvelous zoo creatures

We took a trip to the zoo this week.

They marveled at the many and wonderful works of our creative God

While I marveled at them.

There are no creatures on this planet that fascinate me endlessly like these:

my children.

Flesh of my flesh of my flesh, 

life given through my life,

and through his life, 

and from His life.

I sat with this baby

surrounded by zoo smells

and obnoxious dance music

and parents trying to reason with a screaming burned-out two year old

I nursed him behind the bushes

and he slept

and I thought how nice, 

that wherever we are, 

for this little one

if my body is there,

he is at home.