Birth as Worship

My college roommate Emily just gave birth to her and her husband McGee's first child, a little boy affectionately called 'Jack.' I remember in one of my first doctrine courses in college learning about the concept of imitating God and bringing honor to him as his image-bearers. My professor argued that the act of birth is one of, if not the, most worshipful acts that any human can perform. That God delights in life, and when we are bringing new life forth from an overflow of love that we are communicating something about God to the world that can be said in no other way. So cheers for new life and new birth that reminds us who quickens us and tells the world of a love that suffers through pain for the sake of an irreplaceable relationship.