We are made in God's image. That is one of the central messages of the Genesis narrative. God made. Like the animals, but differentiated from them. Only we, us humans, have his 'breath' within. Its poetic, and profound. And one implication is that we too create in our own image. We see it in our children's faces, their hair colour, their stature, their aptitudes, and weaknesses. And as we raise them, we see them take on our manners, our turn of phrase, our odd movements, reactions, even imitating our laugh sometimes. But they also take on something of our world and its priorities, some of our big ideas, and a haphazard selection of our small ones.
How does it happen ? Simple - you put their head out of the window, what else ?
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