Deacon Tom Fox

Sue’s Got a Baby

Dear moms – blessings and heartfelt wishes for each of you. You may find this hard to believe. I have said before that I pray for you – each of you. In fact, my wife and I most often do evening prayer together, and I’ll often lift you up before the Good God… as we ask help and mercy and patience for all moms, but especially those who look to this Catholic Mom site. We pray for listeners to Catholic Moments… we pray for readers of Faith and Family Live… Whether you come for companionship, inspiration or a few moments of ‘other-than-kids-talk’ – please know that the prayers and the words in this column are for you. You are precious in the sight of the Lord – and your work is so important… so very important.

Before most of you were born – there was a gentle wordsmith – a writer of poems, poetry and prose. His name was Edgar A. Guest. One of his (country-simple) truthful and touching works was Sue’s Got a Baby. I dedicate this to you so that you may remember the glow, the heavenly work that you are a part of. I share with you:

Sue’s got a baby now, an’ she

Is like her mother used to be;

Her face seems prettier, an’ her ways

More settled-like. In these few days

She’s changed completely, an’ her smile

Has taken on the mother-style.

Her voice is sweeter, an’ her words

Are clear, as is the song of birds.

She still is Sue, but not the same –

She’s different since the baby came.

There is a calm upon her face

That marks the change that’s taken place;

It seems as though her eyes now see

The wonder things that are to be,

An’ that her gentle hands now own

A gentleness before unknown.

Her laughter has a clearer ring

Than all the bubbling of a spring,

An’ in her cheeks love’s tender flame

Glows brighter since the baby came.

I look at her an’ I can see

Her mother as she used to be.

How sweet she was, an’ yet how much

She sweetened by the magic touch.

That made her mother! In her face

It seemed the angels left a trace

Of Heavenly beauty to remain

Where once had been the lines of pain

An’ with the baby in her arms

Enriched her with a thousand charms.

She’s got a baby now an’ she

Is prettier than she used to be.

A wondrous change has taken place,

A softer beauty marks her face

An’ in the warmth of her caress

There seems the touch of holiness,

An’ all the charms her mother knew

Have blossomed once again in Sue.

I sit an’ watch her an’ I claim

My lost joys since her baby came.

---- By Edgar A. Guest from his book Just Folks ----

Now if it happens that you know

A recent mother who’s lost this glow,

Join with me in prayer this day,

A Hail Mary together we will say.

Blessings from Deacon Tom
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Tom Fox was ordained a Deacon in the Archdiocese of Denver. He currently lives and serves in a small, but growing mountain community in northern Arizona. Tom has received many requests for copies of his Sunday homilies and his shorter Communion Service Reflections. He is an experiential preacher who uses life and stories to share a message of today for Catholics and other Christians Many of his sermons are found on the internet – and a collection of them are found on his website: www.deacontomonline.com. Tom would love to hear from you and will try to answer any questions or sharing that you send in.