The Royal Miracle |
What strange creatures
we are! A mum’s precious baby is her
little miracle…..while others are discarded as ‘mistakes’??
Sperm that enter the
vagina are immature until undergoing capacitation
by uterine secretions and the female immune system recognises the same male. More of the miraculous!
The first sperm to enter
the zona pellucida around the ovum
blocks entry for all other sperm and the two gamete cells now form the zygote, carrying your complete genome: all the genetic information to
make YOU! Yes, we have
a new miracle: YOU.
Next day, this zygote
divided miraculously by mitosis to produce 2 daughter nuclei, each with 23
pairs of chromosomes. (Just as well you started with 23+23 not 46+46 because 92
chromosomes are found in a rat!)
Mitosis continued and
on about Day 5 differentiation
miraculously decided the future roles of your 8 identical cells - that have extended arms to huddle together!
Before your mum knew
you were there you miraculously had your own pulse by about Day 21 and your own
heart after 4 weeks.
There’s sure to be much
more of the miraculous behind your birth but here is one that most mums have
never heard of:
We were all born with 3 shunts, including a ‘hole-in-the-heart’ – the foramen ovale, which closed the moment you were born.
Yes! You and I really are miracles – NOT
mistakes.
We were all born with 3 shunts, including a ‘hole-in-the-heart’ – the foramen ovale, which closed the moment you were born.
So is the Bible wrong
when it says...?
“…He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things…for in Him we live, and
move, and have our being…for we are also His offspring.”
Maybe even old Job had
it right after all...?
“The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given
me life.”
“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about….”
NEXT: ‘The Unique You’
Quotations from KJV Bible: Acts 17:25-28, Job
33:4 ; 10:8-
Photo credit:
people.com
people.com
Some conversations you just never forget… As a schoolboy waiting my turn for a haircut, I heard the barber and a waiting mother marvel that her baby was yet another miracle born.
ReplyDelete40 years later I overheard a mother describe her beautiful daughter as an ‘oops’- in front of her.