Excerpt from TIME(2008年6月5日星期四)

Now, as a father-to-be, I cannot imagine a government telling me to have no more kids, or forcing my wife and me to get rid of a new, additional baby. And as I grow older, I take ever greater comfort from having a sibling — my sister.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810166,00.html

What's difference between the following two sentences?
1. I take ever greater comfort from having a sibling — my sister.
2. I ever take greater comfort from having a sibling — my sister.