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Bella’s gift has been apparent from the moment of birth. Delivered by C-Section at 8:02AM on a sunny Wednesday. The doctor removed her from the cramped quarters of my womb and held her up for everyone to see. She looked around and made eye contact with everyone in the room before letting out a scream that said “where have I landed”? A remarkable child from the beginning full of smiles, laughter and innate insight and wisdom. With a beautiful head full of dark curls and bright gray eyes. Eyes that to this day show an internal brightness and kindness now a soft brown surrounded by a beautiful angel face. Her teacher and I were talking last week about some of her struggles with math. Her teacher laughed and said that she was going over a math problem at the board with the class and told the class “Linda is eight and her little sister Karen is three. How much older is Linda than Karen?” She said that Bella looked up and put her hands in the air and said ‘How am I supposed to know…I don’t even know who they are?” I laughed and thought yes that is Bella. With her bright and funny way of looking at the world. A few weeks ago as we were riding home from the grocery store she asked me if I knew what tracks were. I responded by saying that I did not. She informed me that these were the pamphlets that showed people how to find GOD. She said that she had decided that when we walk in our neighborhood that she wanted to put these on all our neighbors front doors. She explained that we could not put them in their mailbox or they might sue us. She said that she had even decided to put one at the “bad persons door” (registered neighborhood sex offender) because if he found GOD he might actually be nice. I knew in that moment what Jesus meant when he said “Become ye as little children”. As an older mother of thirty eight years old when Bella was born I have often wondered how someone like myself who has suffered from depression as far back as I could remember could actually give birth to someone as “bright and shiny” as Bella. I am certainly more than a little “Dark and twisty” and come from a long genetic link of females with this tendency. Somehow through the grace of GOD Bella has been spared this seeing the world from a place of melancholy and self protective-ness. She is like a bright star on our family DNA map that proves that sometimes the apple does sometimes roll far away from the tree. At times Bella does remind me of my mother who does have a tendency to be much brighter and shinier than I. She has said on many occasions that as a rule follower she had great difficulty understanding how to raise someone like me. I was the kind of child that if you told me something was hot I had to touch it, get burned and find out for myself. I learned along the lines of pain will teach you what pride will not let you learn. Bella and my mom do not have that need and are able to learn from other peoples experiences rather than their own pain. That is another one of Bella’s gifts being able to follow direction and learn some of lives rules without getting burned in the process. I remember one Christmas eve when Bella was about three how she insisted on kissing all of the characters on our nativity scene goodnight before going to bed. It is this innate sweetness that is one of Bella’s gift. She sees the potential for good in everyone and has never met a stranger. Last year when the teacher that Bella had grown very fond of was fired for frequent tardiness and poor attendance. All of the parents were upset because the teacher had been fired on Friday afternoon and was not going to be allowed to say goodbye to the children. The parents had decided not to tell the children that the teacher was fired. That Sunday night as Bella was getting ready from school her eyes teared up as she talked about how much she was going to miss her beloved teacher. She looked at me and said “Mommy I think I know why Mrs. Jones has left”. Why is that I asked. “Well Mrs. Jones was late a lot. I think she was probably fired because when you have a job you cannot do that.” I thought yes that is true but how do you know that at eight years old?? I tucked her into bed and thanked GOD again for her wise spirit which should serve her well in the years to come and will hopefully serve as a beacon of light for those who cross her path.
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