Tag: pregnancy

• The Stations of Acceptance

  

  It’s easy to look back with sighs of regret, as a mother “in the weeds,” as a person in midlife, having made life’s commitment at last, at the unfinished work; work that has been eclipsed by the demands of your dependents, and cannot be attended to again for some months or years, if ever. What…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  June 15, 2024

  Art Life, Catholicism, Marriage and Family Life, Motherhood, painting, spirituality

  art, Birth, Catholicism, Christianity, covid, Creative Process, creativity, death, encouragement, faith, Family, family life, gospel, Healing, inspiration, Jesus, Lent, love, mental health, miscarriage, Motherhood, painting, post partum, pregnancy, recovery, religion, spirituality, The Way of the Cross, trauma, vocation, wellness

• Our Lady of Sorrows

  

  I had heard of the Seven Sorrows Rosary many years ago. I was curious about it back then, when I was a single, new, “baby” Catholic, but honestly, I was a little afraid of it. Somehow, it just felt too heavy; maybe just a little too maudlin for me. Too…Marian? But that was before I…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  March 31, 2023

  Birth, Catholicism, Motherhood, Our Lady of Sorrows

  art, Birth, Catholicism, covid, Family, Lent, miscarriage, Motherhood, Our Lady of Sorrows, prayer, pregnancy