When that voice of doubt starts, have you ever tried shushing it? Have you ever said out loud, "Pipe down, I'm trying to live here"? We are not made to cower in a corner in submission to the negative; we are made to shine brightly and boldly in the face of fear, in the face of doubt, quieting those voices with the good and true things we do every day.
Learning to walk is a bloody affair
There are so many things I said before I had my daughter that were absolutely ridiculous, in my Motherhood Hindsight glasses.
For example ... "I really don't want to baby-proof my house. I'll just teach her what to do and what not to do." Are you laughing at me? I'm laughing at me.
When the world goes quiet, what do you hear?
What I noticed aside from the intense darkness—which I know is obvious since the lights were out, but it’s something you can’t know until you’ve experienced it—was the quiet. No electricity buzzing, no cars driving by, no sound machine in my toddler’s room, no keys clicking on the keyboard. Just the wind and the rain beating the house, until it subsided and the power was still out.
So. Quiet.