And that's why this time of year, we remember his birth with joy, and we ask that Christ's joy would fill us all the more.
Besides the actual moment of birth, few joys in the world come close to the magic of a baby's first ultrasound; those initial, blurry glimpses are enough to move even the most reserved of parents to tearful smiles.
Q: What is the danger of telling stories of grief, joy, birth, death, fraud, bereavement, betrayal, heroism, or supernatural powers that consistently centre on whiteness?
Well, in this man's experience, at least, women don't forget the pain of labor — they mention it, often — but they calculate the pain of giving birth against the joy of having a baby and, usually, decide it's a good bargain.
Readers already saw the first wide-eyed baby pictures, and they knew about Armstrong's "adrenaline rush," at Marlo's natural birth, her "absolute joy" at changing diapers and the sudden "crippling anxiety" that overtook her after bringing the baby home.
Noting the increased difficulty of the expansion and its multiplayer success, The Cincinnati Enquirer stated that "While it's rare that an expansion pack reawakens the joy birthed from the original, Brood War proves it's not impossible" and concluding that the expansion was a "worthwhile choice".
I held it through miscarriages and divorces and rejection and loss of employment and wars and sudden deaths and illness and rage and unexpected love and successes and births and the joy that comes in appreciation of very small every day things.
Crowther et al. [ 14] studied the experience of joy at birth from a hermeneutic perspective and concluded that, although the literature on women's birth experiences is extensive, it rarely focuses on joy.
But along with the joy, the birth will be an occasion for almost unbearable sorrow.
