I didn't mean to imply that all was fun. Just that, and maybe beautiful isn't the right word here, since Adam and Eve who came into being by the Will of God and contributed nothing to this creative act, His Creature's struggle begins in earnest the moment God decrees that his time to enter the world has come. And it's moving to imagine Our Lord's struggle too, beginning in earnest as he enters the human family.
And speaking of struggles, I've got to take a test in a couple of hours. I haven't had to take a real, bonafide test in years, I'd forgotten how butterflies feel.
I didn't take it that way AG. I remember attending a Lamaze class and having these midwives tell us what a beautiful experience it was, husband and wife watching the birth of their first child. My wife bought into all this to the point of wanting not to have our son in the hospital but at home where one could be surrounded by candles, rose petals and beautiful music.
“Bah, humbug.”, Harley said. The ever practical, detach and unemotional Harley told her I would be with her during the birthing procedures but I was insistent on doctors and specialists being around in a hospital environment. The labor went terribly wrong and a team of doctors rushed in to correct the problems. (They told me to go stand in a corner for which I was more than happy to do.) Fortunately, everything was solved but my poor wife was miserable for about a month afterward and found out that you can’t believe everything you hear in a Lamaze class.
Tell us how your test went. We know you'll do great.
Greatly. 8~)