Pietà

A meditation for Rachel

But Mary treasured up all these things

and pondered them in her heart.

– Luke 2:19

To give birth is to know something of dying.

To know the pathos of releasing a part of your own body and soul into its separate destiny, its separate journey toward death. To know that the cross lies in your newborn baby’s future. And also resurrection.

To know the vulnerability and sorrow of the Pietà, the woman who cannot always shield and protect, but who will always treasure up and ponder over. Even, especially, when it doesn’t feel like that’s enough.

To give birth is to know something of dying to yourself and being reborn to new life, a new living creature, a new hope for eternity.     ~  Eden Grace

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