A Daily Reflection with Guest contributors - Carol Persons and Suzanne King
Life, like a Colorado fall day, is full of change. Changing often is purifying. I’m grateful for that. In our extended families many changes happen that cause internal change in us keeping us connected with our maturing selves and community.
Once a week throughout her pregnancy my granddaughter and I chit-chatted as she moved about her kitchen fixing her school lunch and interacting with her toddler. She continued teaching until a week before her due date and continued being cheerful, active, and healthy. I am very grateful for that. Both she and her husband were filled with anticipation, excitement, and a little anxiety even though they had been through this before. After 39 weeks she was “so full” and “so ready”.
Sometimes the change happens in us first as we continue to question and upgrade our values. Change of either kind stirs and stews before it births. I’m thankful for that.
A Birthing
(Taken from Prayers to Sophia
by Joyce Rupp)
Holy Midwife, you rejoiced at the birth of creation
I hold up to you the intuited mystery
Of something new being birthed in me.
It has no face, no name, no sound, no shape.
I only know that something unperceived
Is meant to come to life
Inside the womb of my deepest self.
Is it greater depth or valuable clarity?
Is it a whole new way of being?
