Childbirth and Life's Meaning

Well, I'm offically an uncle. It's really weird to realize that your baby sister is a mother. When a new soul enters the timeline of history, it really makes you consider the meaning of life. One moment you do not exist and then the next, you are a concious, free-thinking, being of choice thrust into the current of the stream of time. The mere fact of existence makes one question what the purpose of life really is.
This was the question that King Solomon explored in the book of Ecclesiastes. With his great wisdom, vast resources, and tireless desire, he embarked upon a quest to find life's true meaning. Consider his observation, " As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything" (Eccl 11:55, RSV). Medical science can explain many things about the human body, but no physican can explain how the spirit enters cells and tissue and becomes a living soul.
Solomon made a search of everything "under the sun" and found everything to be meaningless (cf. Ecc. 1:9). The true meaning of life is only found with something beyond the setting sun. The meaning of life is found by putting God into your life (Ecc. 12:13). Only then with the haunting hunger deep within you be satisified, only then will you find inner peace and meaning with life.