Well, I'd love to believe that women are more wondrous and miraculous than men, but my experience being one leads me to think that they're really not. It's true to say that the physical process of reproduction requires a lot more from women than from men, though.
The number forty has great significance in the Bible.
Perhaps best known is the forty years that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the desert before being permitted entry into the Promised Land.
Maybe this mystical quantity will bear significance as we note, this month, the fortieth year since the Roe v Wade decision legalized abortion in America.
Forty years we have lived with the silent, and sometimes not so silent, holocaust in our midst as the lives of 55 million innocent and unborn children have been killed, plucked from their journey to enter this world.
Who were they? Who...
Men may not bear the direct physical discomfort of pregnancy and child-birth, but they are supposed to provide you the love, respect, safety and support you need to perform sacred motherhood.