Thank you for such a beautiful expression. What you describe is a dream I always held in my heart but have been to ashamed to fully be behind. I’ve been wrestling with and integrating the darker influences in my psyche that tell me the desire to have more than my three boys is a distortion. A desire driven by avoidance of aging, inability to accept my boys growing up, and a laundry list of other judgy excuses cooked up by my programmed mind. My heart has always longed for more and at almost 44 I’m finally trusting the desire. I have a lot of work to do to clean up our rhythms and spiritual life at home with my two oldest, a teen and preteen, who are entranced by life outside our family, but I have so much faith that our family will recenter as I fortify my reclamation of motherhood as my most desired, worthy and important role in this life. God willing, we will expand our family in this process. Message like the ones you shared in this article are rare and precious and I am so grateful to have read them. Thank you. 🙏
Marissa, thank you for sharing your heart! It's so rarely talked about, but the genuine longing in our heart for more LIFE is a gift that cracks us open and invites us into a new realm of living. Your next baby/babies will be so blessed to have a wise and centered mother like you!
I loved reading this Bonnie. I could really picture your household and truly believe life with lots of children is how we were designed to be. Both of my grandmothers had 9 children each but that’s where it stopped. I was heavily indoctrinated and only started having my children at 34. I hope that I can have a small clan of littles to raise and enjoy the beauty of it all.
Oh!! I love this, Lucy. Everything until now has just created the set-up for your most perfect expansion in this lifetime. Your children are BLESSED to have you as a mother, with the awareness that you carry.
Thank you for such a beautiful expression. What you describe is a dream I always held in my heart but have been to ashamed to fully be behind. I’ve been wrestling with and integrating the darker influences in my psyche that tell me the desire to have more than my three boys is a distortion. A desire driven by avoidance of aging, inability to accept my boys growing up, and a laundry list of other judgy excuses cooked up by my programmed mind. My heart has always longed for more and at almost 44 I’m finally trusting the desire. I have a lot of work to do to clean up our rhythms and spiritual life at home with my two oldest, a teen and preteen, who are entranced by life outside our family, but I have so much faith that our family will recenter as I fortify my reclamation of motherhood as my most desired, worthy and important role in this life. God willing, we will expand our family in this process. Message like the ones you shared in this article are rare and precious and I am so grateful to have read them. Thank you. 🙏
Marissa, thank you for sharing your heart! It's so rarely talked about, but the genuine longing in our heart for more LIFE is a gift that cracks us open and invites us into a new realm of living. Your next baby/babies will be so blessed to have a wise and centered mother like you!
I loved reading this Bonnie. I could really picture your household and truly believe life with lots of children is how we were designed to be. Both of my grandmothers had 9 children each but that’s where it stopped. I was heavily indoctrinated and only started having my children at 34. I hope that I can have a small clan of littles to raise and enjoy the beauty of it all.
Oh!! I love this, Lucy. Everything until now has just created the set-up for your most perfect expansion in this lifetime. Your children are BLESSED to have you as a mother, with the awareness that you carry.