We all agree birth is the beginning of life. We struggle to discern exactly when and how life begins. We simply can know that we are, and not much more. Birth becomes a slippery slope upon which to make important life choices, unless we define its boundaries. Does our birth occur with the first gulp of air, the first moment of viability as an individual while still in the womb, or at our conception from egg and sperm to ovum? These questions puzzle our society and we struggle to find substantial answers worthy of the question.
Consider birth from another perspective. Theologically we are born, have our birth, as and when God invites creation. Perhaps our birth is primordial and predates our understanding of self and world. Perhaps God weeps at a society in which hearts move to violence and disrespect for others over the boundaries of birth. Perhaps with God there are no boundaries and as God speaks the word of creation, we are born into being. Birth then becomes not a physical relationship with the world, rather a Spiritual relationship with the creator.
The bitter conflict over the boundaries of physical life should not also become the defining point of the birth of our souls. Our birth has more to do with our relationship with our God, than our lung’s relationship with oxygen. Yet, we all agree, birth is the beginning of life.
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