Now, for the first time, I dared to ask: What if there’s no conflict? What if these things actually go hand-in-hand? Being part of the creation of new life was an experience of God. Yet I also felt something similar in my work. It astounded me whenever I considered that only the creatures made in the image of the Creator can create. Among all the animals on earth, humans alone have the gift of creativity—and, as people had experienced through the millennia, to use this gift is to experience something of God. Now I wondered: What if all desires to create—both with children and with work—are, in
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