awe

I couldn't resist posting this quotation from Sam Keen, the American philosopher:

"Call it 'womb awe' or even 'womb worship', but it's not simple envy. I don't remember even wanting to be a woman. But each of the three times I have been present at the birth of my children, I have been overwhelmed by a sense of reverence... It was, quite suddenly, the first day of creation; the Goddess giving birth to a world. Like men since the beginning of time, I wondered: What can I ever create that will equal the magnificence of this new life?"

As a midwife one day, I hope that I will keep on being struck by this same sense of reverence.

To lose that capacity for awe would be to lose my love for midwifery.