This ceremony is an opportunity for us to share our delight in welcoming the new life of Kyla Anne Burnet and to reaffirm our ongoing joy of Sara Estelle Burnet's presence among us. We also wish to dedicate ourselves as parents and grandparents to the nurturing and guidance of these two beautiful emerging human beings, bundles of potentialities reaching out to realize their full potentialities. Each of us who intimately touches Sara's and Kyla's lives, but especially you, Paul and Diane, will be an integral part of their growth and development. They have changed our lives, enriching them and helping us to grow as we learn to be more loving, caring and nurturing, more aware and accepting of individuality. No life is totally new.
Life emerges from life.
Sara and Kyla have emerged from the lives of Diane and Paul. Diane and Paul emerged from the lives of us, their parents. But it is important that we also go forward, in our imaginings, to future lives emerging through Sara and Kyla. Each of us shares a responsibility to pass along the physical, mental, and emotional health, the skills, and the concerns for ensuring a good life for those who come after us. We are all connected, and the seeds we sow now and the quality of our human husbandry will affect the quality of life on through the generations to come.