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"I'm right here" and a newborn stops crying

Michael Jr. held the camera when his youngest daughter was born. He was right there in the room. He still missed the best part. more

Michael is a comedian, and he flat-out enjoys it. But "one of the things I love way more than that is being a dad," he says. Going through some old recordings one day, he found the one from the hospital and played it again.

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Michael Jr. enjoys comedy, but he says being a dad is what he loves more.

He had been there, of course. But he says he "had never really experienced it from this perspective before." This time he is not busy running the camera. He gets to watch her.

The baby is brand new, sticky and in the middle of a good cry. Then her dad starts talking. "I'm right here," he tells her. "It's okay, it's okay. I'm right here." The crying stops.

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Moments after her dad starts talking, the newborn is calm.

A few minutes later, a nurse starts working on her and puts her diaper on. Michael is quiet this time, and she starts to cry again. He speaks up, she hears him, and she stops again.

Then comes the part he wants people to notice. "I love you," he tells her. "I love you." And she opens her eyes. "That's just phenomenal," he says. "Like, whoa."

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Plenty of parents know this one. Their own crying newborn went quiet the second a familiar voice spoke up.

Michael takes it somewhere bigger. Life gets heavy for all of us at times, he says, "probably even to the point of tears." The key in those moments is "to be still and listen for the Father's voice," a voice that he says is trying to tell you that you are loved.

"All you got to do is open your eyes," he says, a line that could have come straight from that hospital room. Then he wishes everyone a happy Father's Day.