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John Sumwalt For Agri-View
Mar 12, 2023
Mar 12, 2023

Baby — Babies affect us in ways that are impossible to express fully in words. They are a touch from heaven – a brief glimpse of the spectacular, wondrous, magnificent glory of God.
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I remember visiting a woman in the hospital after the birth of her first child. The mother was cuddling her little daughter and the joy in the room was almost palpable. There was an aura of light around the mother and the infant.

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John Sumwalt is a retired pastor and the son of dairy farmers. the author of “Vision Stories” and “How to Preach the Miracles,” he's collecting more personal-vision stories for a future column. Email johnsumwalt@gmail.com or call 414-339-0676 to reach him.