I am a mother
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If Time Flies So Will I (on motherhood)
So we are just going to do this all over again? Day in, day out. Time. I rebel against holding it tight to my chest. But I wonder should it be like this? So furious, fast, and hurried. So limited, constrained and breathless. But how God fills it with love and healing, hope and laughter.… Continue reading
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A Mother’s Reflection on Time
We pass through it now. Going to the chickens or the goats. Or the bright yellow shed. It’s the back entrance to our garden, a nod to time. Almost like the magic wardrobe in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. We walk through always getting older and somehow staying put. Immersed in… Continue reading
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To Moms of Tiny Artists
Art in the Thick of It, Poem🎨💓 “I don’t make art anymore.” But I watched her for a day. She smiled at the morning and then paved a way. She made room for their messes, imaginations soar. She helped them make sense of their huge world and her own such a blur. She cheered for… Continue reading
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It Was You The Whole Time
It was you the whole time. Before I knew I was pregnant. When two lines showed up even though that second one was faint. When I texted our midwife with the happy news even though it was early. But see, I’ve learned there’s no such thing as “early.” Just you! You the whole time. And… Continue reading
Sierra V. Fedorko 