My intention behind being here: In second grade, I visually can view my body sitting in the corner of my public school classroom. I was reading and rereading a story I had written. As I read I could see vibrant colors, the canyon that we were hiking through, the whistling breeze flowing through the trees […]
Something as routine as having a baby. Shouldn’t it be that…a routine? Not only routine, but a phenomenal occurrence that women have displayed since the beginning of Eve conceiving and birthing a child. But it is still routine.
“You are a stranger in your own body.”
Even writing this now, I feel the truth in what I received that day. I desired to be pure, and that is what God desires for me too. The purity of Adam and Eve. The closeness to God that is void of shame.
I quickly looked around observing if anyone else was watching. I knew almost immediately that I was “angering”. “Angering” is a word used when trying to work through the emotions that are presenting themselves as a result of a skewed or unwell childhood.