Jen Elizabeth's Journals

I'm an ordinary mom on a crazy, messy, thrilling spiritual journey

My Two Favorite Poems About Raising Children

My Two Favorite Poems About Raising Children

your children are not your children. they are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. they come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.   you may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. you may house their bodies but not their Souls, for their…

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