Here's how it starts:
"The other day I sat and rocked my baby for an entire hour. My fifthborn--Can you imagine? I just sat and rocked him...." Then further in she says, "So I snuggled my nursling under a fleece blanket, and he settled, and sighed, and periodically shuddered in utter contentment." Then even further in she says, "And I thought, My Life is impossibly rich."
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| Painting: Sweet Dreams by Firmin Baes (1874-1945, Belgian) |
My Pastor has continually over the years reminded us mothers to just sit and rock our babies and look at them. Enjoy them. Don't be too busy.
And lately he's been asking, How rich are you? Don't be tricked into thinking about what you don't have and what God hasn't done (that you think He should have). Adam and Eve were given an entire garden full of trees--but what did they think about? The one tree they weren't given. Instead, think about all you've been given, and all that God has done for you. You are very, very rich. As one woman said, "All this, and Christ too!"
Here's a link to the complete post Poured From a Steady Hand , on the CSPP blog.
(Thank you, Concordian Sisters, and may the Lord bless you.)
I miss them, too!
ReplyDeleteWe ARE incredibly rich. Thank you for the reminder.
ReplyDeleteI also miss them. I grew up in conventional, mainline-type Lutheranism, and found the blog when seeking other Lutherans who were weird enough to reject contraception; they opened a whole new world to me, and I am grateful.
ReplyDeleteDo you suppose there's any way we could start a petition that could force them to start blogging again? I, too, miss them and I keep hoping they'll come back from their hiatus.
ReplyDeleteI think we should all get picket signs.
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