09 April 2006

Two heartbeats

Consider this ... during these nine months that I will be pregnant, a miracle is taking place. My body, which is by nature designed to reject and remove by itself any outside body from it, is doing what it can to protect and provide for this tiny seed inside. I have two hearts racing inside me, one my own, and another of a life that I am helping build.

When I went for the first ultrasound around week 12, a strange realisation dawned on me. As I heard the other heart inside me beating at double the rate at which my heart beats, a calmness enveloped me. It was as if the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of life had fallen in place... I knew then where I fit in nature's scheme of things, my existence, my being who I am where I am, all seemed to make sense. At once, I felt at peace and began to flow in the direction of life.

Carrying a life inside my womb is God's testimony of his existence, a miracle, that reminds me that I am not alone, I am a part of a whole :)