Recently news came that supermodel Heidi Klum and Seal had a fourth child together. That's great and I commend their openness to love and life.What they don't seem to understand is the relationship between the creator and the created and the parents role in participating in this mystery. Seal writes:
“Lou Sulola Samuel was born, and from the moment she looked into both of our eyes, it was endless love at first sight. She is beautiful beyond words and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years.”Hello, there is no baby warehouse in the sky where unborn souls wait to become embodied. Before she was conceived the baby simply didn't exist, and therefore didn't choose anything, much less you to be her parents. The created doesn't choose its creator, like the potter and the clay in Isaiah 29:15-16.
You chose to be open to life, and God chose to create a person -- that's how it works. It's an image of the Trinity in the flesh: two persons love each other completely and unreservedly; and that love is so real, so tangible that you have to give it a name 9 months later.
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