Beanie-wearing future Saint

I feel like this question has a lot of hidden messages about how our culture views children in general.

Anon, here’s a quick rundown of what our 9 months of childfree life was like:

Dinners at restaurants, lots of sex, cuddling, going on walks, watching movies, laughing, talking, making plans for the future, reading in bed, tickle fights that end in me crying from laughing so hard, discussions about philosophy and theology, road trips to relatives, wondering what our baby would be like, painting at Color Me Mine, church, praying and reading the Bible, whispering sweet nothing to each other, promising each other the whole world and the universe beyond

Here’s what the past six months have been like:

Dinners at restaurants, feeding baby dots of whipped cream from our desserts and watching his face light up, lots of sex, cuddling each other, cuddling baby, going on walks with baby and pointing out the world, watching movies, laughing with each other, laughing with baby, talking. making plans for our future, making plans for baby’s future, reading in bed, tickle fights that end in me crying from laughing so hard, discussions about philosophy and theology, road trips to relatives with an extra pit stop to change the baby, wondering what our baby will grow to be, painting at Color Me Mine, church, praying and reading the Bible, playing with baby, marveling at baby, tickling baby, buying baby clothes, good-natured bewilderment at baby furniture assembly, awwing at baby’s every gurgle and giggle, whole minutes of just watching baby sleep, promising each other and our son the whole world and the universe beyond

Fr. Robert Barron, Catholicism, episode 8

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“Abandon hopelessness, all ye who enter here.”

Sometimes sitting in silence - really sitting in that excruciating emotional pain and muttering the words “I don’t understand” and “God, please help me” over and over - sometimes that’s the most intimate and raw and spiritual thing.