"how do babies get in a woman's stomach?"
"How do babies get in a woman's stomach?" asked Jonathan (age 10.5) as we were reading in his room.
"Well, babies begin with a choice and a miracle," I said, offering the answer that has held for at least six months now.
"Yes, but HOW do they get there through a choice and a miracle?" he replied.
Keona unknowingly gave me a few moments to think: "They come on rainbows," she said with absolute certainty.
Over the next few minutes I ventured forth explaining how God created women with eggs and that several hundred, out of the several hundred thousand she was born with, would have the opportunity to become babies.
"How?" he asked again.
"Well," I began, stretching out the word with a few more syllables, "there's a miracle called 'fertilization' that transforms an egg into the beginning of a new life!" I smiled, paused, and braced for the "big one."
But then Jonathan surprised me by asking, "But what happens to all the other eggs?! Do they go to heaven?"
Jonathan was on the edge of tears, already mourning for the eggs that didn't become babies. The conversation stretched over several minutes but in the end he seemed to begin to grasp that the miracle (fertilization) initiated life and that God knew what he was doing with the eggs that did not have that opportunity.
As we all drifted naturally into another conversation I thought to myself, "How will my son feel the day he learns about abortion? He's already fighting for the life of an unfertilized egg."
"Well, babies begin with a choice and a miracle," I said, offering the answer that has held for at least six months now.
"Yes, but HOW do they get there through a choice and a miracle?" he replied.
Keona unknowingly gave me a few moments to think: "They come on rainbows," she said with absolute certainty.
Over the next few minutes I ventured forth explaining how God created women with eggs and that several hundred, out of the several hundred thousand she was born with, would have the opportunity to become babies.
"How?" he asked again.
"Well," I began, stretching out the word with a few more syllables, "there's a miracle called 'fertilization' that transforms an egg into the beginning of a new life!" I smiled, paused, and braced for the "big one."
But then Jonathan surprised me by asking, "But what happens to all the other eggs?! Do they go to heaven?"
Jonathan was on the edge of tears, already mourning for the eggs that didn't become babies. The conversation stretched over several minutes but in the end he seemed to begin to grasp that the miracle (fertilization) initiated life and that God knew what he was doing with the eggs that did not have that opportunity.
As we all drifted naturally into another conversation I thought to myself, "How will my son feel the day he learns about abortion? He's already fighting for the life of an unfertilized egg."
posted by alicia britt chole at
1:23 PM
2 Comments:
So...how DO babies get in a woman's stomach?
I'll tell you when you get a little older :-)
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