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On May 6<\/span>th<\/span>, 2019, after watching his wife Meghan give birth to their son, Prince Harry reported that \u201cIt’s been the most amazing experience I could ever have possibly imagined.”\u00a0 Prince Harry expressed the feelings of many men and women who have witnessed this incredible act of creation. It is breathtaking! It is miraculous!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also painful beyond belief. After expressing his awe of the childbirth process, Prince Harry turned his focus to what his wife went through and said “How any woman does what they do is beyond comprehension.” In recent years, a number of simulators have been created to allow men to experience the pains of childbirth. Men who subjected themselves to these simulated birth devices have stopped the machines before reaching a level of pain that women often experience during this process. It is therefore not surprising that when Isaiah wishes to describe the pain that the Babylonians will feel as a punishment for their actions he uses the childbirth imagery:<\/span><\/p>\n

They shall panic; pangs and throes shall seize them; like a woman in childbirth they shall writhe; each man shall be amazed at his fellow; their faces are faces of flames. (Isaiah 13:8)<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet women experience an even more painful process during pregnancy and birth: worrying about the birth of the baby. Suzanne Jannese, commenting on the childbirth simulators for men, points out that the physical <\/span>pain<\/span><\/em> that’s being simulated in these machines is nothing compared to the fear and anxiety that women experience during the entire nine months leading up to <\/span>childbirth<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

King Hezekiah made a similar observation in the book of Isaiah. When the Assyrian army, after successfully demolishing the ten northern tribes of Israel and much of Judah, threatened to destroy Jerusalem, Hezekiah tears his clothes, covers himself in sackcloth and goes to the Temple to pray. He then sends this message to Isaiah:<\/span><\/p>\n

This day is a day of trouble, rebuke and blasphemy, for the children have come as far as the birth stool and there is not strength to give birth (Isaiah 37:3).<\/span><\/p>\n

Hezekiah understood that the potential of birth is more than the witnessing of a miracle, and more than the incredible pain.\u00a0 Birth is the end of a long and tiring process which hopefully will lead to new life. It is is the ability to create long term goals, and being able to subject yourself to much discomfort until reaching them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hezekiah also realized that sometimes these goals are beyond our reach. We reach a point when we just can’t continue. 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