One year ago today, we confirmed that #3 was on the way. surrrrpriiiise!!
Also known as "gut-check" time.
While visiting a different church yesterday, I wondered what kind of tableau we presented, with our urchins and their associated baggage.
There are three conditions which often look alike
Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:
Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment
From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference
Which resembles the others as death resembles life,
Being between two lives--unflowering, between
The live and the dead nettle. This is the use of memory:
For liberation--not less of love but expanding
Of love beyond desire, and so liberation
From the future as well as the past.
--Eliot, from "Little Gidding" (1942)
2 comments:
This is a great quote from Eliot and reminds me of various times in my life. We need that "liberation" so we can live in the present and be thankful for the moment and what it brings.
I also remember the "gut-check" moment from a year ago and yet look at that beautiful baby boy today. I am sure your family was very welcomed at whatever church you attended yesterday. Any young family with children like yours is always a blessing even if on the outside it looks like a challenge. I hope you had a good experience there.
This is a great quote from Eliot and reminds me of various times in my life. We need that "liberation" so we can live in the present and be thankful for the moment and what it brings.
I also remember the "gut-check" moment from a year ago and yet look at that beautiful baby boy today. I am sure your family was very welcomed at whatever church you attended yesterday. Any young family with children like yours is always a blessing even if on the outside it looks like a challenge. I hope you had a good experience there.
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