The Ultimate in Co-creation

Have you seen the internet meme that says, "I'm so crafty I make people."?

The thought that my body was created with the drive and capability to grow another human being inside me still baffles.

Paint, song, home, teaching, hospitality, story, relationship, counsel - the components of my life's work are like babies. I desire them, carry them, and care for them...but their source, their genesis, comes inexplicably from "another"...from "the I AM". It's the same for us all, whatever the talent or bent.

The etymology of the word "genius" has changed over the years. "Starting in the 14th century, a genius denoted a guardian spirit, and someone with extraordinary talent was said to have a genius, because his or her gift was thought to be the result of some supernatural help." (Dictionary.com) In other words, rather than attributing greatness to talented individuals they were believed to have a genie...a supernatural spirit that flowed through them. I guess my thinking is similar to those medieval folks.

Just the way I can't take credit for "creating" human life, but am a co-creator, a cooperator with The Creator, my talents and abilities were first given by God. The Spirit of God is flowing through this vessel called me. There's something about this truth that gives me peace.

I don't talk about it much but my motherhood years have been full of both joy and grief. I've lost two times more babies in pregnancy than I have birthed...a sadness that flashes in the back of my mind most every day; a loss to be grieved and surrendered; though no longer a gaping wound, still a scar. Like those babies I lost, there are plenty of passions that start and then die before birth. It takes a whole lot of courage and trust to lay down control of outcomes.

I count it an HONOR to be the mom of three amazing boys and I delight in what The Creator is forming, molding, shaping in them and in me as we cooperate.