in this moment

its 5 am on sunday morning and i'm up with my beautiful baby girl. maybe at some point we'll have to let her cry herself to sleep, but for now, her deep shaking cry is too much for me to handle. so i will rock her and hold her and gaze at her new and beautiful face. and as i pick her up, her cry slowly subsides because she knows everything will be alright, cause her daddy's got her. and in this moment i feel entirely at peace with the world. and i know nothing can take that away. i dare someone or something to try. because the sounds of war, the newscasts, the negative, the heart wrenching, head pounding strife in the world is drowned out by the sound of my daughter's gentle breath. i know i will wake up later today and the pain in this world will flow back in. but right now, this is my moment, this is a God-breathed moment. this is life at its finest. nothing can be more perfect than this.