Probado en salas de parto

Armodoxy for Today: Tested in Birthing Rooms

Una trinchera es un hoyo en la tierra que los soldados usan como refugio contra el fuego enemigo. Se dice que no hay ateos en las trincheras. Es un aforismo que sugiere que, en momentos de miedo extremo o amenaza de muerte, las personas recurren a un poder superior. En otras palabras, al mirar a la muerte de frente, incluso el ateo admite la existencia de Dios.

Many years ago, I discovered another place where there are no atheists. The night my first child was born, it occurred to me that there aren’t any atheists in birthing rooms, either. When looking in the face of life in its most delicate and novel state, that is new life, untouched by the world, uncontrollably you lose yourself to your emotions. That loss of control is a recognition and acknowledgement of being in the presence of something greater than yourself. The details of paper-thin fingernails, the sculpting of beauty in the features, point to the fingerprint of God and the realization that the miracle of life as anything but an accident.

I tested this theory a couple of times after that first experience and most recently with the phenomena of grandchildren. Same conclusion: There are no atheists in birthing rooms.

We pray, Lord, in the simplest expressions of life we find You. Keep our senses ever-alert to Your presence all around us. Watch over and protect those little expressions of Your Love. Amen.Whispers of the wind, held in a breath—each filament a fragile thread of nature’s poetry.