Gods Sent Straight from Heaven

I was fascinated to hear about how the Balinese see their babies from birth to six months
begin quote from Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert approximately the center of page 315:
---"The Balinese don't let their children touch the ground for the first 6 months of life, because newborn babies are considered to be gods sent straight from heaven, and you wouldn't let a god crawl around on the floor with all the toenail clippings and cigarette butts. So babies are carried for those 6 months, revered as minor dieties. If a baby dies before it is 6 months old, it is given a special cremation ceremony and the ashes are not placed in a human cemetery because this being was never human: it was only ever a god. But if the baby lives to 6 months, then a big ceremony is held and the child's feet are allowed to touch the earth at last and Junior is welcomed into the human race." end quote.

I really love this idea because this has always been my experience as well. As an intuitive when I look at a baby I only experience the profoundly sacred. Yes. A baby might scream and poop and even pee on you. But if you look at this being and into this being it is straight from God, completely innocent and completely powerful. You, as caretaker might screw this kid up and turn it into a monster by accident. But it comes straight from God, innocent and ultimately powerful just like a seed to a Redwood tree that can live 5000 years or more and be 300 feet tall. This baby in your arms can go anywhere and do anything. Understanding this makes you powerful too, more powerful than you ever dreamed. The baby has far more to teach you than you ever could teach it(he or she). You are privileged beyond anything to even be in the presence of God, in the presence of this innocent and infinitely powerful child of God incarnate.

EVERY BABY IS A POTENTIAL JESUS OR BUDDHA OR MOTHER MARY. Realizing this saves all our souls.