{"id":3916,"date":"2017-07-07T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2017-07-07T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:57:33","slug":"every-birth-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/every-birth-a-miracle\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Birth a Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds awfully trite, of course \u2014 calling every birth a miracle, that is. I can hear you thinking: Next thing I know, you are going to be telling me that clouds and tree trunks and beetles and volcanoes are all miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, as a matter of fact. Exactly so. How did you guess?<\/p>\n<p>But birth is in a category all its own. Nothing is as powerful as the mirror in which we see ourselves, not merely as we are, but as we can be and will be. But even orders of magnitude yet more powerful is the mirror into which we peer as fully developed, highly sophisticated and grown creatures, and see ourselves looking back from barely a pin-point of minutes-old potential energy that can, however, move the universe \u2014 and ultimately will.<\/p>\n<p>Watching a child come into this world tells us \u2014 individually and collectively \u2014 a whole lot more about who we are than we even had a clue before. Bam! Pure enlightenment through \u00absimple\u00bb biological replication!<\/p>\n<p>And if that\u2019s not a miracle, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3918\" alt=\"0001 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0001-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3919\" alt=\"0002 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0002-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3920\" alt=\"0003 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0003-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3921\" alt=\"0004 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0004-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3922\" alt=\"0005 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0005-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3923\" alt=\"0006 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0006-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3924\" alt=\"0007 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0007-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3925\" alt=\"0008 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0008-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3926\" alt=\"0009 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0009-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3927\" alt=\"0010 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0010-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3928\" alt=\"0011 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0011-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3929\" alt=\"0012 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0012-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3930\" alt=\"0013 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0013-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3931\" alt=\"0014 - 20170627\" src=\"http:\/\/amalyaphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0014-20170627.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds awfully trite, of course \u2014 calling every birth a miracle, that is. I can hear you thinking: Next thing I know, you are going to be telling me that clouds and tree trunks and beetles and volcanoes are all miracles.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, as a matter of fact. Exactly so. How did you guess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amalyaphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}