Lyndsey this is a beautiful and raw reflection and your words are needed right now. Keep leaning into that protective nourishing and angry mama heart for your boy and the world. ♥️
I'm with you. I'm an angry cryer, and I find myself sobbing more and more at the wrongness of it all - from personal to local to global. THIS SHOULD NOT BE. And I refuse to accept that this is just the way things are. "It is what it is." Yes, it is, but it SHOULD NOT BE. And we must be the ones to change it.
There is not much I can do now to change things in other countries. There is not much I can do now to change things even in other counties. Or my county. Or city. Things within my own small family are often all I can deal with, as we struggle with intense physical and mental health challenges. But I know all these evils should not be.
This world - all of us - are capable of so much love and beauty and goodness. I sometimes think just holding on to the wrongness of it all is an act of rebellion so powerful it can change the world. Sometimes I think this mothering rage you write of is all that stands between us and total destruction. It is often all that stands between me and despair.
Laura, I missed this comment before but it resonates back with me even more a few weeks later. I want to practice, ponder, and pray more about how we do this over time. I believe so strongly that our ability to stay matters so much more than our ability to react. We are more powerful than we believe
Lyndsey this is a beautiful and raw reflection and your words are needed right now. Keep leaning into that protective nourishing and angry mama heart for your boy and the world. ♥️
Thanks for your kind words, Sue!
I'm with you. I'm an angry cryer, and I find myself sobbing more and more at the wrongness of it all - from personal to local to global. THIS SHOULD NOT BE. And I refuse to accept that this is just the way things are. "It is what it is." Yes, it is, but it SHOULD NOT BE. And we must be the ones to change it.
There is not much I can do now to change things in other countries. There is not much I can do now to change things even in other counties. Or my county. Or city. Things within my own small family are often all I can deal with, as we struggle with intense physical and mental health challenges. But I know all these evils should not be.
This world - all of us - are capable of so much love and beauty and goodness. I sometimes think just holding on to the wrongness of it all is an act of rebellion so powerful it can change the world. Sometimes I think this mothering rage you write of is all that stands between us and total destruction. It is often all that stands between me and despair.
Thank you for writing this.
Laura, I missed this comment before but it resonates back with me even more a few weeks later. I want to practice, ponder, and pray more about how we do this over time. I believe so strongly that our ability to stay matters so much more than our ability to react. We are more powerful than we believe
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