Spiritual Placenta
Give me, Lord, a new spiritual placenta. The child in utero is not inert or totally helpless. Kids need protection, but that doesn’t mean they are stupid. The child is in there inventing a brain and building one. Can you grow a finger? You forgot how! You are post-birth senile, totally out of it! The child is inventing and building a heart, a whole blood system, a nervous system, a spine, a knee. And then doing what all living things do: that kid is in there dancing! The Lord gave the child one complete cell, a warm place to live, and access to nutrition via mom. And then the building began! Access to nutrition: after a few days, the child develops a complex interface with mom’s uterus, a placenta. That’s so this smart little inventor, the little bloodsucker in there, can get the sweetness out of mom’s blood, without all the red stuff. The interface unit – the placenta – has a boundary line that is far more complex...