Knowing What God Was Thinking - 2006-08-12 01:32
My wife (and I), my friends the Rehms, Aaron the Pencilist (more his wife, although he will argue that he is too), and a few others which can’t be named quite yet are pregnant. With so many lives growing in so many bellies, it’s gotten me thinking about how offspring are sprung in different species.
I guess I have a few main questions:
1. How did sea turtles get such a non-participatory role? Yeah, yeah, the female digs and digs, but once she has laid her eggs, she’s done. No bonding. Never to see her young again, unless they run into each other in the course of a sea turtles life. Would they know each other?
2. How did male seahorses get the “blessing” of childbirth. I can just hear God thinking, “Eh, this should be interesting… I should have done that with the humans.”
3. Why don’t we lay eggs?
“Why don’t you get off your butt and do something for once? Don’t use the excuse that you are keeping the egg warm just so you can watch TV and do nothing around the house.” How beautiful would that be?
The phone call to the boss: Sidenote: before I tell you about the phone call, let me tell you how my phone-call-narratives work. You only get to hear one side of the conversation. It’s my narrative. That’s how I do it. Sorry. Okay, back to the phone call.
Phone call to the boss:
“Sorry, I can’t make it into work today or for the rest of the week…
Um-hmm…
Personal reasons…
I’m incubating…”
Or perhaps plant a garden full of seeds in hopes that one will ripen into a baby? Water it. Feed it. Would it grow underground, on a vine, or in a tree?
I suppose my main question is how did God decide on our method of pregnancy?