In reflection with some good friends, I realize even more how incredible, poignant, and righteous my wife's recent post about home-birth, actually is. It came to a place in conversation, where, we concluded that if men were to fully experience the process of pregnancy and birth, naturally (of course) - they may not be so quick to fight wars and such, but more, would not be so prone to submit to fear - because they might allow the process of hope, through instinct, creativity, and pain to direct our paths, our decisions - and we might see life through birth, rather than death through destruction.

It is sad, of course, that our western hospitals are blinded to this process of hope, and thus, blind too many mothers, the incredible process of birth.