...for a Thursday afternoon (just because)
As a married woman,
childless,
sometimes it seems that my vocation is
truncated.
Like I'm not living it
fully.
After all,
marriage is ordered to children.
But the vocation to love
cannot be impeded
by an organic condition.
I am always
free
to love.
Where science has not found an answer,
the answer
comes from Christ.
I am always
free
to love.
(Inspiration: Pope Benedict)
+EcceFiat+
Thank you! I have really been struggling this week with how I am to live my vocation if I'm not blessed with children.
ReplyDeleteJeanne - I encourage you to read all of what Pope Benedict said in the link I included. I found it so encouraging! It is hard - there's such a feeling of "lack" that doesn't seem to want to go away...but we can still live our vocation fully because the heart of married life is love - openness to the other - and a gift of self, and all of those can be done even if children never arrive.
DeleteSimply beautiful!!!
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