Thirty four and a half weeks

pregnant

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In a month or so I will become a mother.

I think of all the pain I have caused my parents and I am filled with trepidation.

I think of the fullness, the richness of my life that my parents and my sister have given me and I feel my heart will burst.

I feel life around me, in me, and now I also feel life moving through me because life is really a part of time, and I am but a moment in it, having passed through the lives of others before me. Now I am the passage through which another life is coming.

Oh, please give me strength to do this. . .