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A little project I’ve had on the brain for a long time: I would like to have a set of little prayer card type things to pray with, featuring images of Jesus+mothers+babies and/or Bible verses and/or prayers relevant to birth and early motherhood.
I grew up in churches with highly extemporaneous prayers, long sermons, and somewhat variable orders of service.
Some readers may know that I’m fascinated by built-environment design. One fun little case study that’s relevant to the experience of moms and babies in church: pews.
Continuing on from where I left off with my story of nursing my firstborn in church: It so happened that our church at the time, remodeling their building, completed a nursing/mothers’/cry room about the same time as my first was born.
Every few months, it seems, the X-fka-Twitter discourse regarding nursing in public resurfaces.
It’s been nearly a year since the birth of my second child, which gave me my second experiential data point on the postpartum period.
This is a little different from the kinds of things I usually share here, but I recently came across two songs that readers might appreciate.
Maternal Body
No, I’m not writing a post philosophizing about the spiritual implications of maternity leave.
It’s always a good time to meditate on the Incarnation, but today—Christmas Day, when I’ve scheduled this newsletter to post—is an especially fitting moment for it.
