tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post6255686857380427203..comments2023-11-25T02:52:50.396-07:00Comments on Faith in Ambiguity: Mother's Day VoicesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08644569152748119356noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-2170292055641271262012-05-15T05:48:17.951-06:002012-05-15T05:48:17.951-06:00It really is. There's a commonality, but we al...It really is. There's a commonality, but we all confront different challenges, perhaps some more than most, along the way. And then are children themselves are a wild card, as any mother of more than one child can tell you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644569152748119356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-75978059762777094652012-05-15T05:46:21.448-06:002012-05-15T05:46:21.448-06:00Thanks, Mom. Happy Mother's Day to you!Thanks, Mom. Happy Mother's Day to you!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644569152748119356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-78193945176010289092012-05-15T05:45:49.958-06:002012-05-15T05:45:49.958-06:00Good point. It is one point of view I often forge...Good point. It is one point of view I often forget, having lived the opposite end of the spectrum, fertility-wise. <br /><br />What I was present to is that being a mother, in the end, is something you do alone. I mean you do it physically, at its best, in community, but, ultimately you answer to God or your own heart and your grown children. And you never have any idea what is going to happen next. You come to a fork in our maze, make a choice, and options that once existed behind you blink out, the path narrowing all the time. <br /><br />Wherever we find ourselves on the maze, when we look out at another woman and her apparent choices, we can't really know what blinked out behind her as she made them, what forks there were to choose and whether they seemed any good. So no two mothers end up exactly the same and, if we could just listen–drown out the justifying utterances we make about our own mothering long enough to hear the chorus of voices–we might be made better by that fact.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644569152748119356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-79435639994894457412012-05-15T05:38:05.917-06:002012-05-15T05:38:05.917-06:00It certainly isn't necessary. I have known som...It certainly isn't necessary. I have known some women to finally decide to become a mother at 40 and many others never to choose to and be happy as clams. There is no reason a woman should HAVE to be a mother. And, like you said, we often already mother in a different way. If I could not have had children (which I did happen to want), I expect I would just have had to open a wildlife center. The house might not have looked any worse.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08644569152748119356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-69457245510549669742012-05-14T23:08:53.804-06:002012-05-14T23:08:53.804-06:00I often wonder if I will ever feel the desire to b...I often wonder if I will ever feel the desire to be a mother. I feel I already have been a mother to my sister, to her children, to anyone in pain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-10418287109357041562012-05-14T12:16:21.295-06:002012-05-14T12:16:21.295-06:00This is just perfect. I had all these thoughts swi...This is just perfect. I had all these thoughts swirling around about Mother's Day yesterday and you have nailed it. Sometimes these Hallmark holidays take so much for granted.<br /><br />The only thing I would add is the voice that says: I want so badly to be a mother and nothing is working.<br /><br />It's those people I think about on this celebration of all things Mother.TangledLouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771682524596744447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-35556916057843765512012-05-14T09:32:04.726-06:002012-05-14T09:32:04.726-06:00This is a great reminder that the motherhood exper...This is a great reminder that the motherhood experience is as varied and different as the women who go through it.Julie DeMillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17929034148906710834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209692386668184870.post-67454418542953476232012-05-14T07:39:50.305-06:002012-05-14T07:39:50.305-06:00Bittersweet motherhood! Well done.Bittersweet motherhood! Well done.bronwyngordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02048506676204085935noreply@blogger.com