Today my great-niece Aubrey is one year old. From a Christian standpoint, that is singularly one of the strongest statements of faith I have ever written.
God has allowed us to unite one of a millon cells of a man with a tiny part of a woman, and participate in the creation of another human person.
I know that God is the true creator, but this is His letting us in on the joy He felt as He created the world all those years ago. Imagine what a couple feels knowing that they are encouraging growth and life. Or any of us who cannot conceive a child and are witnesses to this incredible growth. Now multiply that by millions and billions. This is what God has experienced and then blessed us with.
When I hear someone say that there is no God, that creation is just a coincidental result of a chain of events (of course these same people can't cite a source of that chain) or that we are foolish and naive to believe that there is anything greater than us...I think they should look at a baby. Watch a child - watch the growth, the learning, the discovery. You can explain the physical process to say how, but what about the why? What about looking past the medical and into the spiritual? What makes my child different from all the others? Why are there children who don't grow the same way as others? And why they are still loved? Watch and see the time that a parent is truly depended on and the time they are forced to let go. Watch how the parents become observers in their own child's life.
There is more than science and medicine to define a child's presence in our world. There is faith because we know that all the unanswered questions are because God has deigned it that way.
Today Aubrey is one year old. Happy birthday precious child of God.
Very nice post. You are doing well blogging.
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