“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.” —Leonard Cohen

In Australia, today, the joeys are falling out of their mothers’ pouches.

Baby kangaroos spend six months or more in their mothers’ pouches from the time they arrive from the reproductive tract as a scant one inch fetus. Gradually, the baby begins peeking out of the pouch. Then one day at three to six months of age, it falls out of the pouch, or appears to, though the mother has muscular control and can tighten the pouch to protect the baby if she needs to. Likewise, she can use the muscles to tip the baby out of the pouch.

After the joey’s first fall out of the pouch, it takes a wobbly stand for a minute and then usually climbs right back in. For the next couple of weeks, the baby kangaroo leans more and more out of the pouch, riding the edge, exploring how far he or she can go before plopping onto the grass. The joeys spend months of living in and out of the “womb” before they are once and for all dropped outside.

God created so much comfort and warmth in this world!