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The Trouble With God’s Plan
A life altering loss unfortunately also comes with much unsollicited “spirit-splaining”, mostly from people who don’t get it. In honor of #worldchildlessweek, join me to explore the harm this does to those suffering not asked for losses. And to investigate the underlying motivations of these dismissive “God’s Plan” and “Meant To Be” type platitudes.
Who Says You Can’t Go Home
When you can’t have the children you wanted, the subject of your “before” life can be also be tricky. See what happened when I went back in tme to visit my hometown.
Grief Revisited
We live in a world where people commonly possess the unconscious bias that people without children are not affected by harm done to children. That we don’t care, and that we somehow lack the emotional depth to have a relevant reaction to such things. In this post I highlight that nothing could be further from the truth of course, by submitting my childless voice to the conversation in response to recent tragic world events.
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That’s so funny – yes great minds DO think alike!! Loved your post, Mali.
“What kind of God serves up this as a plan?” – Exactly! It so doesn’t track, at least relative to…
We’ve been left out of the ring again?? Shocking! 😉
This is timely, I have just written about a religious artefact or two that was sent my way – one…
BLOG ROLL
- Childless Not By Choice.net
- Conscious Childless Elderwomen
- Des Meandres aux Etoiles
- Artemise aura tout essaye au presque
- Different Shores
- Elaine OK
- Femme Sans Enfant
- Gateway Women
- Grief Is the Word
- Infertile Phoenix
- It’s Inconceivable
- Lesley Pine
- Life Without Baby
- Mercies Per Mile
- Meriel Whale Counseling
- Mrs. Spit….Still Spouting Off
- No Kidding in NZ
- Not So Mommy
- ReproTech Truths
- RIP The Life I Knew
- Silent Sorority
- Sliding Doors NZ
- Steph Penny’s Blog
- Stirrup Queens
- The Barreness
- The Next 15,000 Days
- The Road Less Traveled
Thank you for your post too, your pespective is so valuable. I’m still reeling from the religious artefact dispensing……nothing worse…