How would I describe finding out I was pregnant and alone after my husband left suddenly? Frightened, alone, confused, hurt, incapable, unqualified,…So many scary adjectives. I get it. How could a man leave a woman who is pregnant? How could a man leave his wife for another woman? This would be our 5th little boy….
I have never done something so terrible, never made such a horrible mistake, if it could even be called a mistake. I stood, my feet glued to the floor and perfectly still other than the shaking which defined who I was in the months after my husband left, and I watched in open-mouthed horror at…
Last weekend I took my boys to see the Max Lucado movie, A Christmas Candle and was taken off guard by an early scene during which a young woman finds herself pregnant and alone. The movie portrays a reverend dishing out soup to the needy and switches to the scene of a the woman, no more…
I am no longer pregnant and alone, but I still have more to say. It’s time to start blogging again. To get back into it. To take it seriously no matter how many people read this. I must start again. I must realize that it is not about the number of people who read this…
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Mary. The Virgin Mary is an amazing woman. Although she was unmarried at the time of her conception, she was never pregnant and scared. She was never pregnant and alone. I wish I could have felt the same way tafter my husband’s abandonment during the surprise pregnancy of our fifth little boy.