My Pontification

I just finished the book “Holy Sex!” by Gregory K. Popcak, PH.D and in light of the “Contraception: Why Not?” series of posts, I thought i would share an excerpt from the book that I enjoyed.  It caused me to think back to the post “Contraception: Why Not? (Part 19)” where Professor Janet E. Smith asks where we get our immortal soul from if there is no immortal soul in either the sperm or the egg?  Of course the answer is from God, He creates the immortal soul in every being.  I just really enjoyed how the following excerpt was expanding on that point:

“God loves loving.  Love is what God does best, but a lover isn’t much good without a beloved.  This is why God seems to be endlessly fascinated with creating new things.  It gives him more to love.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that God delights in creation because he loves it so much and loves creating more to love.  In his book Orthodoxy, Chesterton writes,

                It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening “Do it again” to the moon.  It may not be automatic necessity that makes the daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them.  It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.  The repetition in Nature may not be mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.  Heaven may encore the bird who laid an egg.  If the human being conceives and brings forth a human child instead of bringing forth a fish, or a bat, or a griffin, the reason may not be that we are fixed in an animal fate without life or purpose.  It may be that our little tragedy has touched the gods, that they admire it from their starry galleries, and that at the end of every human drama man is called again and again before the curtain.

Perhaps this is one of the things Jesus meant when he told us that unless we became like little children we could not enter the kingdom of heaven (Luke 18:15-17).  Children never get tired of creating and of repeating a good thing.  Neither does God.  It is only we sinful, jaded adults who see a field of flowers and think “parking garage” or see a baby and think “second mortgage.”  By contrast, if a small child – or God – sees the same field of flowers or the same baby, they both think, “Yeah! Do it again!”

Who do you think is living more authentically?

Even though God is completely sufficient on his own, God loves creating, and God especially loves to create people.  As the Church tells us, the human being is “the only creature on earth whom God willed for its own sake” (Gaudium et Spes). Why?  Because we are the only creatures he gets to spend an eternity loving.  We are the only earthly beings built to last, so to speak.  One can only guess that for God it is a joy beyond words to create creatures whom he can love eternally.  This same God, who generously longs to share all of his joy with us, gives husbands and wives a taste of the particular joy that is creating and loving the creation by inviting us to bring his children into the world.”

 -Holy Sex! By Gregory K. Popcak, PH.D. pages 149 & 150

Although we cannot create a new and unique person on our own, I do find it truly amazing that God brings us along in the creation processes.  What an opportunity to experience God’s creative power through the mystery of life.  To live this experience has got to be a gift designed to reconnect us to our creator.