Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.

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to learn more. And now, let's start the show.

Hello, everybody, welcome to Latter Day Struggles. You are right in the middle of these mini episodes where I am walking you through some of my favorite

Carolyn Pearson poems from her newer book called Finding Mother God.

Okay, here we go. This poem is called

Woman Creating. That woman you want to evict from the hall because she wishes to nurse her baby.

People should pay to see her. She should be placed on a cushioned oak rocker on a round riser

with soft lighting and encircled with protective

tape, yellow tape with bold black letters reading, ah alert, scene of a miracle in progress.

And nearby should be a framed sign with words in skilled calligraphy. This woman recently created

and birthed the body of a small human with over 15 trillion cells,

300 bones, 10,000 taste buds, a brain with 10 million nerve cells, and a heart that beats 130 times a minute.

And this moment, she is gifting this child with an elixir that could not be duplicated in the

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