The Most Radiant Gift: Loving Thoughts Uttered from the Babies' Hearts

By Daniel E. McCrimons M.D.

Throughout my forty year career as a pediatrician, I spent countless hours examining the babies. I heard a clear message from within that they had understanding and answers to teach us and help us grow. I was inspired to share this insight with their families.

Parents and caregivers will be drawn to appreciate these gifts present in the hearts of the baby while reading this work. I intended to say something to arouse us to cherish the time we are given to help expand our children’s inner being so that we may recognize the humanity in ourselves more clearly. We, as a society, have the responsibility to nurture that presence, and only then can we exist the way we were born to live- in a loving, harmonious, neighboring, and vibrant fashion. Our babies and children look to us to treasure that spiritual wisdom that they are blessed with at birth.

The collective ideas consist of forty loving thoughts that the babies are presenting to their caregivers. There is a discussion about planning for baby’s arrival, baby’s attributes, and our connection to water, the earth, the universe, God, music, and life. There are moral issues, allegories, biblical references, and other life lessons.

These thoughts are an aggregation of recommendations that would be meaningful for raising our babies and children. Hopefully, we would want to offer our angels our guidance and direction, love and patience, peace and understanding; direct them on a worthwhile journey. Through these efforts, the babies can look back and feel we were regarding and important contributors for them and generations to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 26, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765232606

Daniel E. McCrimons M.D.

Daniel McCrimons, M.D., a Harvard College and Columbia University trained physician, is a practicing pediatrician who has a dedicated interest in blending his forty years of clinical experience and discussions on family values to integrate science, history, philosophy, and spirituality as a wholesome learning model. He has created recommendations for therapeutic self-improvement and compassionate living to inspire his readers. He is the author of a historical fiction trilogy, "Diamonds in the Water". He lives in Sacramento, CA.

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Balboa Press rev. date: 09/15/2022

Contents

About the Author

Dedication

Acknowledgments

The Soul of a Baby

Preface

Introduction

Why Am I Writing These Thoughts?

Significance of Forty Thoughts

Why Pediatrics? A Personal Reflection

Why Pediatrics? Another Personal Reflection: Marcia Sund

Chapter 1 The Wonder of Them All

Chapter 2 Keeping a Vibrant Moral Compass: Character Building

Chapter 3 Spiritual Bonds

Chapter 4 Heavenly Peace

Chapter 5 Timeless Wisdom to Direct Our Choices, to Nourish Our Well-Being

Chapter 6 The Common Sense of the Senses

Chapter 7 Final Thoughts: Mother Nature and the Nature of Man: We Are One

Epilogue

References

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The baby is as important to humankind

as the sun is to the universe

About the Author

Daniel McCrimons, M.D., a Harvard College- and Columbia University-trained physician, is a practicing pediatrician who has a dedicated interest in blending his forty years of clinical experience and discussions on family values to integrate science, history, philosophy, and spirituality as a wholesome learning model. He has created recommendations for therapeutic self-improvement and compassionate living to inspire his readers. He also wrote a historical fiction trilogy, Diamonds in the Water. He lives in Sacramento, California.

Dedication

To our precious babies, who are enriched with the answers to life’s mysteries and struggles, and express themselves faithfully without words, without fanfare, and without credit.

And to our babies whose voices were not able to be heard and whose lives were not given the opportunity to grow. Their voices needed to be heard at a different time, at a time they were supposed to arrive, when their being should clearly be expressed.

Please rise in the presence of our Creator’s masterpiece and rejoice.

Acknowledgments

When a written work is created for review and editing, the writer needs a collaborative perspective to make the finished product more presentable and all-inclusive. There is an added power and appeal given to the author through the constructive critical statements of the editor; one hand washes the other.

A vivid example would be the influence that harpist Ksenia Erdely had on composer Reinhold Gliere’s Harp Concerto in E Flat Major. Her understanding of harp composition as well as her experience in teaching and playing this glorious instrument were generously offered and appreciated by Gliere so much that he wanted her named as coauthor on his published score. She declined and was listed as his editor; her contribution was needed to make Gliere’s performance memorably successful.

I, too, have had the privilege of a collaborative review for this literary project. From the moment of conception, bringing the ideas together, formatting the content, expressing the thoughts from the babies’ perspective, and balancing the spiritual, philosophical, and practical application of the recommendations, I received comprehensive assistance to make my points clear, ordered, and attractive.

I was given the necessary guidance and editorship from my nursing colleague and endearing friend, Marcia Sund. Marcia was presented several drafts, and each draft was scrutinized thoroughly. I was pleased with one particular draft containing all forty baby thoughts that I had worked diligently to complete. After her review, she suggested I rearrange the placement of several of the thoughts, add innovative ideas, and eliminate several statements in most of the babies’ messages. The discussions went back and forth with more constructive criticism. Although this often frustrated me, I realized her intent was to make this work something unforgettable, meaningful, and helpful now and for future generations. I needed both the left hand with a fitting right hand to mold the creativity into a complete work of art.

Her signature is written on each page. She shared her personal reflection of why she chose pediatrics for a career; she created a poem, Baby’s Prayer at Birth, suggested many of the thoughts, and essentially cowrote this book. She declined having her name mentioned, but her contribution shines brightly from the beginning to the end. I am humbled and grateful, Marcia, for your patience, generosity of time, your detailed analysis, and most obvious, your genuine love for the babies and children. My words are incapable of expressing what you have done for me, as I feel your voice singing the babies’ thoughts.

I must thank my clinic families for allowing me to care for their babies and children throughout the years. I also want to thank my two sons, Michael and Samuel, and grandsons, James and Theodore, for teaching me so many satisfying lessons and their offering of true friendship. To Michael McEvoy, my mindful colleague, scholar, and spiritual brother, whose detailed review broadened the richness and depth of the baby’s messages. To my beloved second mother, Dr. Gloria Hobbs, who felt the book was an "evolutionary