I just finished reading Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart by Carol Leonard and am again amazed, awed, humbled and rejuvenated by birth. It speaks to my heart in a way that is so tender, powerful, spiritual, miraculous, and invigorating all at the same time. I know in my soul that I am called to be a midwife and to serve God by serving women. The events that occur in pregnancy, labor and birth are sacred and it is my calling to help preserve this gift for women who I come in contact with. It is hard for me to even express how I feel because it is such a base and core emotion - this is part of my spiritual life and connection to God.
I continue to meditate on that we are knit together in the womb by God and what an unbelievable gift that is! No matter how much we know about DNA, chromosomes, genes, meiosis and mitosis, we can never understand how God forms us, molds us and breathes life into us while we are inside the womb. Praise God!
Reading works such as this fuels the fire in me to continue to support women's choices, to trust their bodies and to trust birth. Trust that God is in control and guides our ways, guides my hands as I feel how a baby is laying inside her mother's belly. Guides my intuition as I labor sit with women, guides her body as she births her child. I love in the book that Carol "attends" women and babies at their births. We don't deliver babies - we attend women and we catch babies! What an amazing honor!
I am so grateful for the journey I have taken to arrive at my present location, knowing the women that I know, serving with the midwives in my community and very much anticipating the future. I pray for many more years as a midwife to women and their families.
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