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Whoa, my eyes are leaking again. You’ve articulated the hope and beauty found in conforming to God’s weirdness. Isn’t it incredible that, as you say, God dwelt in a womb?

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This is all so very well put—thank you!

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This is a great piece. Really glad to have found my way to your Substack.

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Beautifully written!

I would like to note that in my personal experience, birth control was prescribed to “lighten” my cycle before it had ever had time to balance itself…now after almost 8 years off the “ p.o.p.“ my cycles have not returned and my fertility is a question mark-the interference with our natural bodily functions was and is experimental, and those experimenting are not even following up with women to gather data on possible long term effects.

Our hormonal cycles are part of every bodily function from brain development to organ function, and cannot simply be “managed” without consequence 💜

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So true. I’m so sorry :( that sucks. My mom experienced something similar with the pill, but God opened her womb at 35 and she had 5 kids. Obviously, not all stories have the desired ending, but I hope your body manages to return to its natural rhythms eventually.

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You are so kind 🦋 it is not my desire to have children, but it is important to me to Be healthy and find hormonal balance. It’s a journey and I am learning a lot about the miracle and sanctity of women’s bodies !

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This was beautifully written. I am a mama of two, and have not experienced the sort of awe and emotions of motherhood that I hear many describe, so I might provide a caveat that obedience to the Spirit’s conviction to raise children will shape and change us regardless of how we might “feel.” The miracle is a miracle even if it doesn’t register like a Hallmark movie.

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Yes, very good to emphasize. There's a lot of sentimentality surrounding motherhood in American culture. Actually, there's a lot of sentimentality in general. We're a very emotion-driven culture, I think, and it's always a good reminder not to idolize "the feelz."

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As many times as I have listened to this song and album and loved it- Nothing I could describe this song as compares to how you so eloquently wrote this.

It has made me even more appreciative of her work and I am in awe of what God did in her life!

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Yeah love this!! And also The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was the first CD I ever owned 🩷

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Thank you for this. This is incredible!

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Although I don't have that choice, not really, but which I would have chosen if I did, I resonate with everything you wrote and analyzed so astutely and from a perspective we don't normally read (at least not from the loudest and mainstream media).

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“About a quarter of American pregnancies in 2020 ended in abortion”

I’m curious, what is your source for that stat? Just wondering since it sounds a little different from some others I’ve heard.

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I ended up totally rewording the phrase too, because technically the stat was comparing births to abortions, excluding other outcomes like miscarriages. Thanks for your sharp eye!

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Oh I’m sorry! I thought I had edited that. It’s actually a fifth, which is high but much lower than it was in the 80s. I believe that was from the CDC.

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