nothing could have prepared your heart to open like this
-john o'donohue-
Day 23/31: today i attended a baby shower for a friend i met in grad school. i caught myself asking the parents-to-be if they are "ready for baby" and they answered as if that was a legitimate question. i read another blog yesterday where a local woman posted about her birth story. she had given birth to a beautiful baby girl this week, a little over a year after losing her 16-month-old to a heart disease, and after another miscarriage. i have followed her story since her daughter was ill and passed away. i am in awe of her courage to open her heart again, despite the risk of losing everything.
so as i drove home from the shower, i thought about the stupid question i asked my friend. we all do it. i remember when i was pregnant getting asked the same questions, "are you ready? are you ready?" and we answer by talking about how the clothes have been washed and folded and cribs have been set up. special lamps and sound machines have been procured. but the real question beneath the question, should really be this: are you ready for your heart to ache with joy and to open as wide as the sea?
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