The Human Race

So my cousin is an astronaut. I know, really crazy. We were watching a video someone in my family emailed of him doing an interview over the phone in space the other night. Afterwards we were talking about the percentage of the human race that has ever entered space. We looked it up and did the math and it was something like .0000001% That's only the population living today, not all people who have ever lived. We also learned after researching the numbers that the total population living today is more than has ever lived due to procreation, safety and technology advancing towards the goal of living much longer. As my friend put it, "If everyone in the world wanted to hold a human skull in their hands, they couldn't." Although longevity has increased, fertility has also declined rapidly. I don't think because one can't have a child devalues their existence in any way but I did feel a sense of choseness after hearing that since I am pregnant with my second son. It isn't as much of a miracle that the child is born healthy anymore as much as he was conceived without struggle in the first place. I wish I knew more research to find out if this is a biological happening or a Godly invention. It would be devastating to think God wouldn't choose our family to procreate so I'm going to abandon the latter. What a blessing it is to raise two beautiful boys no matter if they came from my womb or not!