Ten years ago Kensington Palace made
the announcement: “Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was safely
delivered of a daughter at 8:34 am. The
baby weighs 8 lbs 3 oz.” It was a typical British announcement with little more
flair than the weigh-in of jockeys at the Kentucky Derby. But Prince William and Kate beamed with joy
when, seven hours later, they presented their newborn daughter to the world.
When Prince William married Kate
Middleton fourteen years ago it was a storybook wedding. Two billion people watched. Since that time,
the Royal couple has charmed the nations with their world-wide tours. Now they have enchanted us with their
children, Prince George and his little sister, the Princess. Keeping with British tradition, William and
Kate waited a few days to let us know her name.
Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. She
was named for her grandfather, King Charles, her greaet-grandmother Queen
Elizabeth, and her grandmother princess Diana.
When she was born, Prince William
called her, “A little joy of heaven.” Princess Charlotte is now a beautiful
ten-year-old girl full of laughter, giggles and fun. Ten years later, her
mother Kate said. “Charlotte spends most of her time upside down, doing
handstands and cartwheels.”
Part of our attraction to William, Kate
and their children is our fascination with celebrities. But, in this case, even
celebrities stand in awe, overshadowed by the traditions of royalty. We are moved by something deeper than
celebrity worship. The core attraction
of the royal family is just that: family.
In our scientific and antiseptic world
we are sometimes in danger of reducing human life to the mundane, the
clinically predictable. But the birth of
a Princess somehow draws us back to celebrate the majesty and the mystery of
birth and life: the natural result of a man and a woman committed to one
another in matrimony.
We are each born of a mother and a
father, which does not mean that we all know our fathers and mothers. Parents are not always married, and in some
cases, such as artificial insemination, they never even know one another. But, the fact of the matter is, we are all
conceived, fashioned and formed by the mystical union of male and female.
It has been so since the
beginning. Genesis states, “ God created man in His own image, in the image of God
He created him; male and female
He created them. God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and
multiply.’” (Genesis 1:27,28)
Sooner or later most of us want to know
our lineage. Where did we come
from? Who were our parents, and who were
their parents? What mysterious mix of ethnicities and nationalities went
together to produce … well … us?
Princess Charlotte is who she is by birth
and by choice. She was born a Princess because Prince William chose Kate
Middleton to be his bride. And she was born a Princess because she is the
daughter of their union.
In a similar way, we are all born
because God chose us and gave us birth.
In Isaiah, God says, “You who have been borne by Me from birth, and have
been carried from the womb; even to your old age, I will be the same, and even
to your graying years I shall bear you!
I have done it, and I shall carry you; and I shall bear you, and I shall
deliver you.” (Isaiah 46:3-4).
I'm so proud to be a child of the King! Not a princess but privileged! God Bless You Brother Bill!
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