As many light a candle tonight with the #waveoflight to mark the end of #babylossawarenessweek, to remember their own and/or other babies lost I thought I’d reshare this reel I made a while ago.
The words on the reel are ones we read out at our daughter Aurelia’s funeral from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His words on death of a loved one to me are a beautiful prayer recognising the trauma, emptiness and awfulness of grief, whilst offering a hopefully prophetic insight of life in the future where the thorn of remembering our loved one in the midst of grief instead becomes a beautiful remembrance.
There are still times when the loss of our daughter can feel as bitter as those early weeks in the chaos of loss, but I wanted to offer hope to those who may come across this post in an earlier stage of grieving their baby. Because these words we read, in many ways as a prayer, have for the most part become true - the short time we had with Aurelia is indeed a hidden treasure in my heart. I can remember feeling her kicks, letting our (then) puppy curl round my bump, holding her and getting her hand prints with joy…of course the joy as a taste of bitter sweetness but there is joy in her memory and no longer just pain.
If you’re in the midst of grief of a loved one- these words are my prayer over you today too. In the meantime go gently on yourself, ask for help when you need it and know there’s one day when the pain, whilst not gone, won’t overwhelm life quite in the way it does now.
Sending love.
Becky.x
A little update - I’ve learnt the age old lesson you can’t do everything lately- life is really busy particularly now trying to give as much as I can to my boys over the Easter holidays as well as campaign to become a local councillor. It’s been an odd time where a number of doors have seemed to open at the same time from God on the local politics side and with the podcast so I’m excited to see where He’s taking me at the moment- but part of that I guess is learning how to juggle priorities and when to pause things- so bar one episode the podcast is on hold till May 2nd but I promise it’s worth the wait- I’ve filled the rest of the season with some incredible women of faith!
Ciao for now (though I’ll still be on social media so do say hello). 😘
Bit of different content from usual but I know many of you would relate! It’s Saturday night and I’m sat on the floor of our kitchen looking up washing machine error codes/Googling when is the first delivery from Curry’s available! 😂
Is it wrong to pray for healing for your washing machine?!?
Happy Saturday evening all you mums out there!
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This week’s guests are @elle_limebear & @janeelizabethkirby – I’m not exaggerating when I say I was buzzing after my conversation with them for days. They give such a hopeful approach to anxiety that recognizes the power that faith can have over anxiety whilst also fully acknowledging how awful and painful a force it can be in our lives.
In the podcast we talk about their struggle with anxiety, how they overcame it as a stronghold in their lives, the role of faith and motherhood with their anxiety and how to better support other people who we might know are suffering from anxiety.
Remember to share this post if you’ve found this episode helpful and spread the word!
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Season 3 is out!! To kick the new season off we’ve got the fabulous Lucy @thehopefilledfamily talking about motherhood and faith (and how that led to her blog), and she really candidly speaks about her journey of adopting twins alongside her two biological children. It’s a real good’un of an episode.
Remember if you’re looking forward to listening to like this reel and share it on your stories!
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First in our mini series in the run up to Christmas is Season 1 guest, Celia Webster @waveforchangeuk talking about how Christmas can make life more difficult for mums/families if you have a child with additional needs, and how we might bring salt and light to families like hers at this time of year specifically.
If you haven’t listened to Celia’s episode in Season 1 I’d really encourage you to- she literally gave me goosebumps when she talks about a dream she had. Also it’s such a beautifully honest account of her wrestling with the different direction her life took with her daughter.
Link to hers, and other episodes, of the @saltymumspod in the bio.
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