Status Updates From Motherhood: A Confession

“I am, in many ways, still learning to become two. Several years ago now, my body became two as you were born and took on a separate bodily life from mine. And since that physical labor I have been in periodic episodes of spiritual labor for you, learning to help birth your selfhood, your spiritual self, your sovereignty, as distinct from my own.”

The gift of your needy presence taught me to receive you, my own vulnerable stranger, so that by that practice of hospitality, I might learn to receive Christ. With you pressing against the walls of my belly, finding no room to grow, I learned to make space for God. And so through you, my small creation, I found and became more like my uncontainable Creator. In your dependent existence, God came to me in a new way.