Obstetrics

Today I spent 4 hours listening to a lecture about pregnancy and fetal development and it put God in an entirely new perspective for me. We watched an hour-long video that both showed and described the various stages of fetal growth in a 9 month period.

All I can think to say is, "Wow!"

Personally, I think that every single human being on the planet should have to watch that video in order to truly and fully appreciate how precious their life is. I learned a lot today, and I'd very much like to share it with you:

God didn't simply create you. He spent 9 long months intricately forming each and every cell in your body. It absolutely blows my mind to think that I, Kaila Arielle Bowlin, used to be smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. If that's not humbling, then I don't know what is.

God spent 9 months forming your heart and blood vessels in order to make every single thing you did today possible. 3 weeks and 1 day after you were conceived your tiny little heart began to beat. [That's long before most women even know that they're pregnant, which I believe trumps each and every argument that is pro-abortion, but that's another topic entirely.] That tiny little heart grew into what is now your primary source of physical life.

God spent 9 months developing your lungs and respiratory system so that you can breathe, sigh, yawn, speak, sing.

God spent 9 months assembling and strengthening each of your 206 different bones in order to support and frame your body.

God spent 9 months weaving together upwards of 600 different muscles, each composed of thousands of individual muscle fibers, so that you can move, sit, stand, walk, run, jump, swim, play, dance. You name it.

I'm guessing you get where I'm going with this.

We serve such a meticulous and intricate God!! There are over 6 billion people in the world right now, and God set aside 9 months to individually and uniquely create each and every one of them.

Psalm 139:13-16 says,
¹³ For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

And that's not even the half of it!

The thought of myself as a tiny, single cell compared with the fully grown woman sitting in front of this computer is unbelievable. Think about it! All the things you're capable of doing, saying, thinking, learning! Just look at how far you've come and where God has brought you! I might not be doing a very good job of making my point here, and if that's the case then I'm truly sorry. My heart feels about ready to burst with gratitude and amazement.

And to top it all off, I feel honored to have been chosen for such a sacred task as carrying one of God's precious creations.