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Carol Womick's avatar

Yes, yes there is. (“There’s still some magic in the world after all.”)

I can relate to so much of this. Hubs is 62, I am 56ish. Our last child(unless God pulls an Abraham/Sarah on us ;) ) was born 13 years ago, on St Joseph’s day(Mar 19).

I have seen so many conversions and reconversions, in myself, personally. Keep moving forward. Pain means that you.are.healing. Gratitude is so crucial to keeping your head above water.

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Vincent Waddelove's avatar

A couple of days after my first child was born in 2018, I got home from hospital one evening (he was very underweight, wouldn’t feed, so my wife had to endure a prolonged stay in the arms of the sainted NHS). I was exhausted, both physically and emotionally. I put the oven on to cook a ready meal, and then just sat on the floor and cried. And cried. I can’t tell you when else I’ve felt emotion like that.

My meltdown was beautiful. I was struck by the simple enormity of the whole thing; that this small child was flesh of my flesh, but on a much deeper level, the realisation that we had co-created an eternal soul, destined by God for God. And even beyond that, an unutterable love for this little human that transcends the normal limits of human understanding: the realisation I was seeing in my own love for this little child, a glimpse of the love which God has for me - and you Steve - and just how much He longs to spend eternity with us.

What a gift to be able to reminded of that moment by your words here.

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