no news is good news

I have hit a really nice part of the pregnancy. My 24 week exam went very well. No gestational diabetes, no health concerns, just a big active baby! I am staying rather warm and I can swell like a watermelon, but all and all I am quite comfortable.

We went to our friends Kathy and Scout's wedding this week. It was a such a beautiful ceremony. I had the honor of reading from Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. It is something that I have always loved, but it was particularly meaningful to me as I think more about what it means to be a mother.

On Children
Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.