This is not Christ, of course, but their image of Christ perverted along the way by too many compromises with the culture and too many fears subverting love. Salvation is like a child in that it is supposed to grow and develop more and more into the image of God within us, in peace and joy, in righteousness and justice, in graciousness and love. A baby also reveals to us the complicated nature of God's salvation. Sure, babies are cute, sweet, fun. They are also messy and a great deal of work.
Parenthood is no picnic, even before they learn to talk back.
Babies keep you up at night and interrupt your best laid plans. They cry or they coo and you're always trying to guess just why. Every breath brings a new mystery even as they slowly reveal themselves. And babies will teach you there are no experts in the field who have all the answers to tell you what to do in every situation. That's why it takes a family, it takes a community, it takes a village to nurture a newborn, and it takes a spiritual community to nurture our spiritual rebirth.