I never know exactly how to go about writing
posts like this one... I've just been thinking a
lot lately about this and feel the need to
discuss it with someone.

Anyway, the basic jist of my thoughts were in
regard to what goes on at the moment that a
new human life is created, and what an
awesome gift and responsibility God has
trusted humanity with. We have the power to
create life.

Or do we? Because then I started wondering--
when a father and mother concieve a child,
are they really creating something? The
amount of matter and energy (i.e., "stuff") that
makes up the universe is finite, or at least we
assume that it is. The stuff that we are made
of is the same stuff that everything and
everybody has always been made of. It just
moves around.

Think about it. The bits and pieces of stuff that
made up my skin a week ago are gone now...
the cells have died and been replaced, and
now they're floating around in the atmosphere
as little bits and pieces of dirt that you can only
see if a shaft of sunlight hits 'em in a dark
room. Eventually, they'll settle, and maybe
some of them will find their way into the soil in
our garden. So next year's tomatos could very
well be made out of the same stuff that I was
made out of last week.

So when a father and mother "create" a child,
they're really only combining existing "stuff"
together to make an organism that can then
be fed with more stuff to make it grow. That's
still a pretty amazing ability that God has built
into us, but can it really be called creation?

The creating is still going on of course. The
same person is doing it Who has always
been doing it. Amazing as the human
reproductive process is, all we're doing is
making crude earthen vessels. It's God who
must craft the human souls and spirits that
animate those vessels.

"And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul."
-Genesis 2:7

And I guess that's what is the most amazing to
me... that every person I see every day is a
uniquely crafted sentient being, created out of
nothing the moment they were conceived.

Gri"and that's what I thunk"shny