Hello

The most outstanding creation project I was ever a part of involved bringing three new lives into the world...not all at once, thank goodness, but one at a time and reasonably spaced out. It occurred to me years later that nothing in the world gets 'made' without something else being altered or even destroyed. Certainly my figure got altered in the process of bringing new life into the world. Some days I felt like it had been completely destroyed!! And when the time came for the baby to get from the safe and warm incubation of my body it seemed as though a catastrophe was taking place. My body didn't react in any way that was predictable, routine, or familiar. There were moments in the process when it occurred to me that women sometimes died doing this. That thought made the whole experience seem downright terrifying. But when the baby actually arrived and was breathing on its own, I had little if any memory of all the things that had happened that had scared me to death and convinced me that I wouldn't live through this ordeal. When I looked at that baby for the first time, it took my breath away. In that one instant....preceded by a number of months of unusual bodily experiences...I felt like I had been catapulted into a whole new world...a world that revolved around this new life that I now held in my arms. "Amazing" is an inadequate word to describe that experience. And it occurred to me that my body would never again be the same...and neither would I. My world had changed forever!! And thanks be to God!!
Rev. Liz Tomlinson