Redeeming motherhood
Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and author of, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution has a way of naming what many women would not dare say about the experience of motherhood in this society of sugar-coated hallmark sentimentality.
“My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.”
It’s this raw sentiment that once acknowledged can be redeemed by God’s own maternal acts towards us. Only then can we say, happy mother’s day.
@Markus I get your drift on where you were going there. I often think of my past and use it as a means to analyze where I am and where I want to get to. Where I struggel is balancing it all out. How do you guys balance things out?