The Best Gift You Can Give On Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day for the lives you have nurtured and sustained that have immortalized your own existence, converging past, present and future in the face of your daughter or son. On this weekend, I wish you joyful peace, as holders of the profound maternal wisdom that connects you to eternity.
While this is indeed my hope for all who read this letter, for some, the reality may be different. It may be that life after baby's birth has not yet fulfilled your dreams, that the joy and totality of the complete maternal experience has eluded you. You may feel separate instead of bonded to your child, a panicked indifference to the experience and a deep sadness that robs your baby's smile of its ability to move you. If this is where you find yourself, please do not stand alone, but reach out to your loved ones and receive their willing support. Allow the universality of the birth experience to unite you with those who understand and lift you and your sweet babe safely to your path again.
I speak not only to mothers whose living babies are at the breast, but to those mothers who stand with empty arms, eyes fixed on a distant horizon where too brief a life has wandered, a mother nonetheless.
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