“Two are better than one.” So Solomon wrote a few thousand years ago. He went on to explain what he meant by that statement and it certainly makes sense. But then, what about having two children, as in having twins? Wouldn’t they provide a built-in illustration of Solomon’s point? Through a series of amazing events, the Lord brought into the lives of those of us recently ministering in the DR “one half of a twin.” Little Isaac (as he is called) was abandoned and is now recovering very well going from sickly to chubby! He is also up for adoption. The other half of his twinness was unknown to us until recently. Now Isaac’s brother (Jakob, as he is being called…yes, spelled with a “k” instead of a “c” so as to make his name more “hip,” I am told) has not only been discovered, but is also available for adoption. These events have produced a series of wonderment and challenges known well by those used to third world complexities, but frustrating to Americans who seem to have a system and time table for everything. The delight would be for the two brothers to be placed in the same home. Now that’s a prayer request! And, as we wait for our Heavenly Father to put all the pieces together, we can only anticipate the glory that will be brought to Him when everything is said and done. Natural twins separated and then reunited…great story! And then there’s man’s version of twinness. I read in the paper this morning how two different scientific research firms are planning to clone a human being. Put aside the ethics of the matter for now, I wonder how all of this appears to our Creator? Will either of the clones (should the scientists be successful) be able to say of themselves that they “are wonderfully and fearfully made”? Will they know the wonderment of having God breathe into their nostrils the “breath of life”? For that matter, who will be their father or mother? Will cloning void the concept of procreation as we know it and thus leave the new individual without umbilical cord and without connection to the rest of the human race which has been made “in the image of God”? Come to think about it, in whose image is a cloned individual made? For those of us who are children of God, does cloning make those cloned individuals “children of a lesser god”? Somehow, I believe that Genesis 1, 2 and Psalm 139 get lost in this cloning shuffle.