It's Snowing! I ran to put on a Christmas album immediately.
It doesn't matter if I'm broke; the onset of the Christmas season always brings out this sense of wonder. Snow is so magical!
This morning I really wanted to talk about another wonder: Childbirth.
My little sister had her baby yesterday afternoon. 4:14 pm. She called me at 2, all composed and gracious, to alert me that she was dilated to a 7 and 90% effaced. I was on my way to the bank, so instead I did a U-turn and dashed to the hospital.
A couple men within the earshot of my experience have referred to the gore involved as comparable to gutting a deer. A gruesome simile. How is is possible that something so bloody and painful and frightening can move one to tears of awe? Is it shocking to say that this event is beautiful?
I wonder what the experience would have been like without the Curse...?
It is a privilege to participate in the birth of a human child. It is, I think, a powerful thing to see that God Himself allows this gift to us. For Men and Women to labor over the production of a new little person is to participate in Creation. It is god like. It gifts us with a touch of His Own experience. And our hearts fill to near bursting with the beauty and the wonder.
Welcome to our world, little lady. Your Auntie loves you.
3 comments:
Congratulations Danielle! Welcome Mika!!
Hah! Your sister bet my daughter by hours! (picture on my site!)
Congratulations to your sister. It is with a sense of awe a new life inspires. (And if all you are going to do is stand around and cry - pass the kid back to me! My turn, my turn, my turn!!!)
Kelly, you made me cry again! Tell Danielle and Ryan congratulations. Can't wait to meet her. Praise God for a safe birth and a healthy baby.
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