Please Pray For Me

[Donna]

Lauren, beloved of Jesus and Mary,

I knew something was up...was praying for you earlier today, and for Jared.

It is so hard, I know, because my Mom has said negative things during every pregnancy of mine. Even up to the day I gave birth to our 7th child in April. And Husband had a waterfall of anger and sadness that night.

But my mother-in-law (also Protestant) has been prudence itself, and has been a comfort un-looked for.

I don't understand it, because Mom loves and delights in every baby once they come. She is a different woman almost, once they are here. I have come to realize that these incredibly hurtful comments have mostly to do with her and not me. And, that there are things she cannot give me; and so God has given me other Mom figures, in the flesh as well as Our Lady, to give me what Mom cannot.

And it is hard to detach. But praying for detachment is what you can do.

Truly, I did finally understand this only months ago: that Mom doesn't believe that the babies come from God. (Or something... tho' I have explained to her the Catholic truth, and that I adhere to it of my own accord, not because of my husband). She just doesn't. How can she? I was never supposed to be here; and after me, things were made so that no others might come.

And now there are 5 children praying for her conversion (ages 13, 9, 7, 5 and 3 ). The babies will join in once they're old enough.

I am so proud of you. You are doing all the right things.

A BABY!!!!!

DEO GRATIAS!!!!