words to ponder and pin {and cling to}: Psalm 22

This week I attended a labor and birth, and like always, it opens everything wide and amazes me. I went from the Children’s Hospital where Florence is, to a home and hospital across the water, where life was coming forth. Labor challenges: the ups and downs, the roller coaster, the unexpected. And then the release of birth, the small weight of a bundle of warm skin and groggy eyes, in your arms, somehow, the gift overwhelms and covers all the bumps along the way, and makes one forget, in a fog of deep love and joy. I love the references to birth and breastfeeding in the Bible.