Welcoming Sebastian: Birthing civilization anew with a brand new baby boychild.

If you can stick out your tongue at will, you can perform brain surgery. It’s all just a matter of learning how.

If you can stick out your tongue at will, you can perform brain surgery. It’s all just a matter of learning how.

Birthing a child is one of the biggest bets you can make on the future, a gamble my niece and nephew Maddie and Tim Brannum just took on in the form of a brand new baby boy named Sebastian.

I got to meet him last night, when he was about 18 hours old. An engaged and engaging mind. I got him to play a stick-out-your-tongue mimicry game, the youngest kid I’ve ever done that with. That’s voluntary muscle control plus interactive play, all-the-way human from the first bat of his eyelashes. Just as with older children learning to make hand signals, which we discussed a few weeks ago, if you can stick out your tongue at will, you can perform brain surgery. It’s all just a matter of learning how.

We take up the risks and salutary consequences of giving birth in this week’s Church of Splendor homily:

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