Our first year of trying, when my husband and I were 30 and 31, was a time of assumptions: that we would conceive like everyone else, that having a child was the most natural thing in the world.
God promised Abraham that she would be "a mother of nations" (Genesis 17:16) and that she would conceive and bear a son, but Sarah did not believe.
Both received the vision of an angel, who announced that Anne would conceive and bear a most wondrous child.
Saint David, who was totally understanding, and didn't even bat an eye when he found that Google doc I'd made charting my menstrual cycle against the various Ladbroke's betting odds of the day that Kate and Will would conceive.
Annunciation, in Christianity, the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a Son of the Holy Spirit to be called Jesus (Luke 1 26 38).
Given his own bootstraps rise to intellectual eminence, it was only natural that he would conceive the idea of an educated elite -- the Talented Tenth he called it -- whose mission it was to lift up less fortunate blacks.
"Is anything too hard for the LORD?" (Gen. 18 14) When God told ninety-year-old Sarah that she would conceive, she laughed.
For I suspect, Socrates, that the notion of the soul which we are all of us inclined to entertain, would also be yours, and that you too would conceive the body to be strung up, and held together, by the elements of hot and cold, wet and dry, and the like, and that the soul is the harmony or due proportionate admixture of them.
Jorge Pino of the Fish and Wildlife Commission told Reuters, "I think that anybody who would conceive this scheme is not thinking properly".
In an era filled with talk of peace, love and understanding, it's not surprising that an organization named Peace Train would conceive the fiddle fest.
