I just had to share this. It’s so beautifully written and very inspiring for me. 🙂
These are some snippets from what N’tima Preusser wrote in Coffee And Crumbs.
The love you will feel is nothing like you have felt before. It will be foreign and familiar all at once. It will fill you to the very top of your heart, nearly spilling over. The thing about this kind of love, though, is that it can feel heavy. Disproportional. You may feel like you will nearly break in half from the top-heaviness. You will not be able to tell the difference between exhaustion and depression, and that darkness will rob you from what should be the most tender months of your daughter’s new life.
You will be better. You will grow. You will adjust, and settle, and adjust again. That is what motherhood is, I think. Finding ways through the good heartbreak to fit more love inside of you. There will always be something that stretches your capacity for more. You will learn how to balance the goodness with the heaviness.Â
And, I beg you, embrace that things will always feel unfinished. Let unfinished be okay. Let unfinished be enough.
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