[The Rez]

Spoke with my boy Joshua yesterday evening. He was rocking Maya

Maya is "Thriving" and gaining appropriate weight.

It's requiring a combination of breast and breast-pumped bottle feeding
to achieve the necessary nutrition. Glory! It's working!

Maya's physical strength is still on very much very much weak,

hence the switch out between bottle and breast. It's sort of a
pre-weening . . . uh . . . weening. The expectation is for Maya
to gain strength enough to completely segue to the breast for food.

Folks . . . I heard Maya cry [albeit, over the phone] for the first
time yesterday. In that instant, she became for than a photograph;
more than head-knowledge - she became *Maya,* not just 'the baby'

What I've known all along in my head, moved into my heart.
Really, into my gut - 'cause that's where we humans actually "feel"

May I please humble ask your continued *Hope* [expressed as is
most comfortable to you] toward Maya and her parents - and even me.

These things are Needful . . . beyond what tongue can tell

Blessings and Thanksgiving,

Rez