God’s apostles
Ken Veitch reflects on the blessings of children
The French philosopher Montaigne, in the sixteenth century, once wrote: ‘The most universal quality is diversity.’ I am the proud grandpa of three boys: Joel, three, and Alastair and Sammy, both one. In some ways they are so similar and in others so different. Joel is into walking, running and talking. Alastair and Sammy maintain a cheerful prattle and crawl about our house rather like those baby turtles scurrying to the sea to avoid predators. That our grandsons exist is miraculous, having been formed in thirty-nine weeks from an organism smaller than the dot on this ‘i’, to be born as tiny humans with the potential for… who knows?
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