{"id":2707,"date":"2013-05-01T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganfamilies\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2013-04-28T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T22:49:31","slug":"wednesday-wisdom-liminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paganfamilies\/2013\/05\/wednesday-wisdom-liminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wisdom: Liminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A weekly Wednesday Wisdom post with two or three profound or beautiful thoughts on a theme related to Paganism and childbearing. An invitation to meditate or just to pause a moment and consider. Liminality, journey, birth, transformation\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cPregnancy is one long liminal stage, a transformation that yields a shift into a new role.\u201d \u2013 Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Pagan Pregnancy<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWe are always on a journey from darkness into light. At first, we are children if the darkness. Your body and your face were formed first in the kind darkness of your mother\u2019s womb. Your birth was a first journey from darkness into light.\u201d \u2013 John O\u2019Donahue, \u00a0Anam Cara<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How does pregnancy offer transformation? How are we changed by birth? What happens when we cross the threshold from darkness into light?<\/p>\n

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