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Cay Gibson
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I admit to having sat here the past hour reading several posts from this blog which Marilyn directed us to this morning..
Kayleigh (my oldest dd) is planning to cook me a birthday meal today (she had to work yesterday), and I'm going to walk with her through these beautiful entries written by a beautiful woman of faith.
Kayleigh turns 18 next month and I am still guiding her. Guiding her in how sacred is our call to be mothers. Guiding her in how precious her brothers and sisters are. Guiding her to see how God carries us in the lowest, darkest times of our lives.
And, if she is ever blessed to participate in the sacred dance we call pregnancy, I want her to have faith. Lots and lots of faith.
Kayleigh has a strong love for God and a beautiful appreciation for our Catholic faith. I never want her to loose that. And that's why I continue to share with her and walk with her and guide her.
Our daughters are never too old for guidance.
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"There are 49 states, then there is Louisiana." ~ Chef Emeril
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Cay, what wise and beautiful words. Kayleigh is very blessed to have you be her guide. I am overwhelmed with hope for the future of womanhood, motherhood, and femininity. I am going to do some gentle guiding today myself, I am going to share with my daughters, in my actions and words, what a privledge it is to be a woman.
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Abby, 15
Gabe, 13
Isaac, 11
Mary, 10
Sam, 9
Henry, 7
Molly, 6
Mark, 5
Greta, 3
Cecilia born 10.29.10
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Cay and Lisa, thank you for your words that remind me of the awesome responsibility God has entrusted me with. I always wanted lots of boys...I have 6 daughters! He knows what I need and I trust in Him for the grace to teach them what they need. And I know to turn to Our Lady...and I hope to teach my daughters by her example.
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Yes, so true, Cay. So many of those same thoughts have been churning inside me these last weeks.
Those articles are so hard to read.....but what faith! Pregnancy, birth, being a woman....all of it: it involves such "risk", doesn't it? The vulnerability...the lack of control....the need for abandonment on so many levels....
I really believe we women desperately need one another. The older generations MUST be there to support, encourage and properly *educate* the young women so that they have great peace and confidence, and not------fear. And they know they can trust us to be there for them---and that they do not feel lonely in the process and transitions of developing womanhood, spousalhood, and motherhood.
Thanks for the post.
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WOW! What a great thread! Cay, it is so true that older teens still need to be guided. There are many parents out there who believe that "guidance" ends pretty much with entrance to school - maybe that's something that sets those of us who choose the sometimes grueling road of homeschooling apart? I don't mean that in a prideful way, either, but that perhaps this reflects a fundamental difference in what we believe about raising children that goes against what popular culture teaches.
Nina, you are so right about letting the next generation of mothers know that we are there for them. That has been something that I personally have felt has been a real loss for me on some levels. I have not really felt that the "older" generation of mothers was really there except in shadow form as I have moved through my mothering experience over the last 15 years. I agree with you that it is a privelege and a blessing to be able to be there for younger moms. What wise words!
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 I read the posts, I am so lost in waves of sadness and such joy at the power of a mother's love. What a privilege we have as mothers to love.
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Zoe 9,
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And that's the most poignant point of all, right, Rebecca?  In the end, all there is is Love.
We are co-creators with God and our mothering gives us a brief glimpse of the awesome power that is God's.
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