[Magdalen] baptism: Avery Grace

[ME Michaud]

A beautiful name, and fit her perfectly. Pretty and placid little girl,
watching everything, apparently without a lick of anxiety. Not to be said
of her sister, however, who melted down and had to be carried out crying
"Mommy! Mommy!" The trials of the elder child :-)

I wondered if they'd considered taking the nearly-four-year-old down to
stand with the parents and godparents instead of abandoning her confined to
the pew, which she didn't like one damn bit. But it's never right to
second-guess parental wisdom, I guess.

In his sermon, the rector reminded us that God is eternally bringing life
out of death, which was particularly poignant given the family's situation
perhaps.
-M