Full time wife and mother – Lydia didn’t realize it but forty years have slipped by so fast. Her two daughters have left home and country and formed their own families. And now she faces a wide open horizon, will she dare dream again?
First she had to recoup her sense of who she is.
At a young age of twenty-five, she left a promising career to focus exclusively on her family. It was a solitary path, one rarely chosen by many, but one she believed firmly in. Going without domestic help, she plunged headlong into motherhood. It would have been nice to have some domestic help but this would have given her nothing much to do. So foregoing this luxury, she discovered a new world of fulltime motherhood, reveled in it, single-handedly embraced its challenges, its demands and its joys.
Many could not understand this. A friend asked “don’t you get bored?” Lydia’s answer “This is learning one can never have any other way. To give birth, to see a new being emerge from you, to witness its fragility and at the same time its huge potential, and to know that you have been entrusted with a divine task to help shape the person this baby would ultimately become. What greater task is there?” “Every day is a learning experience. As this child grows, I grow alongside it.” Awesome! Amazing!
