I spend a fair amount of time these days rocking. I love it. It gives me time to think, as well as time to silently love. There is nothing sweeter than the abundant love one feels when a newborn lays his tiny head on your shoulder and slowly falls asleep. I’ve tried to make sure that I don’t just let my mind be blank when I’m sitting there feeding him or rocking him. So I’m going to start a new category of blog post called Rocking Chair Thoughts. Here’s a few I’ve had so far.
-I’ve often wondered why, in certain cultures, girls have babies so young. There are a lot of teenage pregnancies in Cleveland, most by girls from unsettled family situations. Now, after having a child I have a hypothesis. Having a baby opens you up to expressing love freely and receiving it constantly. I have never felt so much love than I have these past five weeks. How attractive this must be to a girl who has always been shown ‘tough love’ if any love at all.
One response to “Rocking Chair Thoughts”
It’s interesting to think back about what you think about in the rocking chair. I love this idea for this blog post you have. It seems like when I was in a rocking chair with Luke most of my thoughts were thankful thoughts. I always thought of how thankful I was for Luke, obviously, but also I’d look around the room and think “all of this stuff, in this room was given to us” and how thankful I was for the people who gave them to us. It was (almost) always a great time to just sit and think, and silently love-I love that!