The magnificence of life is really too wonderful too describe. But I found this description some years ago which summons reverence by its very ability to baffle the mind:Posted on 01/24/2011 4:50:11 AM PST by markomalley
The magnificence of life is really too wonderful too describe. But I found this description some years ago which summons reverence by its very ability to baffle the mind:
MIRACLE OF LIFE- Consider the miracle of the human body. Its chemistry is just as extraordinarily well tuned as is the physics of the cosmos. Our world on bothsides of the divide that separates life from lifelessness is filled with wonder. Each human cell has a double helix library of three billion base pairs providing fifty thousand genes. These three billion base pairs and fifty thousand genes somehow engineer 100 trillion neural connections in the brain—-enough points of information to store all the data and information contained in a fifty-million-volume encyclopedia. And then after that, these fifty thousand genes set forth a million fibers in the optic nerves, retinae having ten million pixels per centimeter, some ten billion in all, ten thousand taste buds, ten million nerve endings for smell, cells that exude a chemical come-on to lure an embryo’s lengthening neurons from spinal cord to target cell, each one of the millions of target cells attracting the proper nerve from the particular needed function. And all this three-dimensional structure arises somehow from the linear, one-dimensional information contained along the DNA helix. Did all this happen by chance or do you see the hand of God?
Today, many of us march for life, here in Washington, on the West Coast, and in other communities. Today we ponder the great mystery that is expressed in the 139th psalm:
For it was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother’s womb. I thank you for the wonder of my being…Already you knew my soul my body held no secret from you when I was being fashioned in secret….every one of my days was decreed before one of them came into being. To me, how mysterious your thoughts, the sum of them not to be numbered! (Psalm 139 varia)
No human being is an accident, no conception a surprise or inconvenience to God. Mysteriously he knew and loved us long before we were ever conceived, for he says, Before I ever formed you in the womb I knew you (Jer 1:4). And, as the psalm says above, God has always known everything we would ever do or be.
It is often mysterious to us why human life is, at times, conceived in difficult circumstances such as poverty, times of family struggle or crisis, or even conceived with disability and disadvantage. But in the end we see so very little and must ponder the mystery of God’s reminder that many who are “last” now are going to be first in the kingdom (e.g. Matt 20:16; Luke 1:52-53).
So today, many will march, and all are called to remember the sacred lives that have been lost. We acknowledge our loss, for the gifts of these children and their lives have been swept from us as well. We pray for women who struggle to bring children to term and experience pressure to considerabortion. We pray for the immediate and sudden conversion of all support legalized abortion for any reason and for a dedication to assist women facing any difficulty in giving birth to or raising their children.
The following video is a shortened version of the masterpiece video called “Genesis” by Ramos David. It magnificently depicts fetal development. I have taken the liberty of adding a different music track since this is a shortened version. The Music is William Byrd: Optimam Partem Elegit (She has Chosen the Best Part), a text most fitting since we pray all mothers will choose life. The full length video is found in higher definition on YouTube by searching under “Genesis Ramos David”
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Did you catch the vigil mass on EWTN last night? From the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception - it was awesome.
See this thread:
What is life? How did our existence occur? How was the ‘Universe’ created? Why was the Universe created. Who or what force created the Universe. What is the purpose of our existence? Have there been other Universes? Why were there other Universes? What is time? Why does time measure from minute half-lives of sub-atomic particles to 14 Billion years? Why is the age of the Universe and earth so long when our biological life span is so brief? Are we supposed to exist for trillions of years in the future until the Universe ends? Why do we exist at all? For what reason? It doesn’t make sense.
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
It would be far better to NOT contemplate life or anything beautiful for that matter. If you look at a creature as beautiful and then realize the imminent destruction, you fall into a brooding depression. The reality of the horror is just too much to bare. There is constant torture and destruction of the little ones everywhere we look. To make matters worse there is a chance that any child survivor who lives to old age will still turn to evil and wind up in hell, making his or her life totally pointless in every way.
It is a far better policy to become cold as ice, to love no one, to forget about joy, and to avoid compassion except when necessary.
Life is just plain horrible.
Dispair is a terrible burden to bear. Many of us have been through it.
Sometimes it does seem as though the World has won.
I’ll be there in spirit! I can offer today’s bugbears for the marchers’ intention.
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