aiden choles

Our baby is due in a few weeks time. I'm sooo looking forward to it.

One of the joys as a father-to-be in the gestation time is the ultrasound scan visits at the obstetrician. For the most part, the pregnancy isn't as "real" for me as it is for Sam - after all she does have another being growing in her belly? Me, not.

I love the scans. They are the best, and they are the most favoured appointments in my diary ;)

It's amazing the technology development in a few shorts years. For most of the people reading this post, there was no such luxury when you were in the womb. Your parents most probably only "saw" you for the first time when you were born. I know this is true for me.

But then, as I was reading scripture this morning I began to wonder if science and technology have gone a little too far? Here's the verse:

¹³ You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
      and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
      Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
¹⁵ You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
      as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
¹⁶ You saw me before I was born.
      Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
   Every moment was laid out
      before a single day had passed.

So before ultrasound technology God was the only one who could "see" the baby prior to birth. Now we have the luxury. There's a side of me that wonders if this goes too far? Not that it's a danger to mother and baby, but that it's a step too far for our pride as humans?

Should the privilege of "watching the weaving of a baby in the dark of a womb" not remain in God's arena?

As a result of the technology, we have now taken another step into the realm of the "Godly", and boy, we know all too well what happens when humans make so-called technology advancements. This is not to say I'm spelling the doom of the human race because of the perils of ultrasounds, no, rather I'm reflecting on the advancement of the human race. It seems to me that every new year marks the next step we're taking in "knowing more", and subsequently "taking" more away from God.

I dunno, this is maybe a dangerous musing. Or maybe it's just plain pointless.

Either way, I am pretty chuffed to be able to see - in some small, fuzzy, black and white way - the way my son/daughter is being woven in the womb by God.