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Laura Kelly Fanucci
Laura Kelly Fanucci blogs at Mothering Spirit, part of the CCblogs network.
Another, again, anew
I knew we were meant to have daughters. Then God gave us a boy, and another, and another.
November 27, 2019
Look, mama, look—do you see?
In a world of whittled attention spans, perhaps the greatest gift I can offer my children is also the simplest.
April 3, 2019
The silence that surrounds parents’ grief for a baby
“It’s the absolute worst when this happens,” says the man laying gravestones, unable to speak the words baby or dead.
October 8, 2018
Sacred creation in the everyday
In my three-year-old son's bathtime play, the Spirit still hovers over the water.
January 4, 2018
To be vessel and passage
We receive a gift to carry and pour out to others. We are carved into channels through which God flows love.
July 12, 2017
The homecoming
There are no questions about where I have been, as he flings chubby toddler arms around my neck.
November 28, 2016
This is why we give thanks
Expressing gratitude to God only makes sense if you do it even on the bad days.
October 23, 2016
Growing up with grief
My older brother died 25 years ago.
I was ten years old. I grew up with grief.
July 31, 2016
And yes I said yes I will yes
Ten years ago we started being married. It is the vow that started our vocation.
But what does it mean when a vow becomes an everyday verb? When a calling is shared as a single story?
July 17, 2016
God in the wilderness
After our twin daughters died, mothers from all over wrote to me. They had lost babies before birth, after birth, in childhood, and beyond....
July 4, 2016
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You can imagine. Let me help you.
As newly bereaved parents, we hear this all the time.
I can’t imagine what you’re going through.
May 1, 2016
I want them to be mine
The two girls I carry below my heart. The three boys who run circles around me all day long. I want them to be mine.
I refer to them as such, of course.
February 23, 2016
A letter to the twins
This is the first thing I know about you: you are girls.
This is still a stunning revelation to a mom of (previously) all boys.
February 1, 2016
Stay close to the stories
Another morning is blueing into being over the thin horizon behind the dark trees. It is icy cold, fresh frost ringing the windows and slow snowflakes drifting down behind the glass....
January 19, 2016
The grit and the glamour
Before I had children, I had a hazy image of life with kids. I don’t think I idealized it as pure ease and smooth delight, but the montage of pictures that would flash through my mind looked much more like parenting’s “best of” reel.
January 7, 2016
Expecting during Advent
Four times I’ve been pregnant during Advent. The first time. The second time. The third time. Now the fourth time.
Four times I’ve teared up at all the hymns about waiting for a child. Four times I’ve connected with the stories of annunciation and visitation in a tender and touching way.
December 15, 2015