This
is a love letter...
Dear
Women, (and any man willing to read this)
Please
forgive me as I gently offer up this prayerful reflection about my
experience as a man during the pregnancy, and birth of my daughter.
This
is a love letter... A love letter to my wife, to my newborn
daughter...and to you.
I
have never in my life witnessed such grace, such beauty, such
intuition and instinct, such heroism and power, such prayerfulness
and steadfastness, and such joy and happiness as I did these past 9
months. I may have thought I loved my wife before... but I'm not
exaggerating when I say I absolutely worship her now.
Emily
chose to make our little Maiya's birth a ceremony of love, and all I
could do was say thank you, thank you, thank you...through tears and
tears of gratitude.
If
you're a man reading this and you have a wife...take a second, stop
and simply embrace her, tell her how grateful you are she exists, and
let her know how honored you are to be able to experience life with
her. Let her know you trust her intuition and that she is perfect.
If
your a woman reading this... look in the mirror, stare into your own
eyes and know that you have EVERYTHING you will ever need right in
front of you ...it's already inside you, and you are amazing and
capable of literally anything. Know that anything a man can do you
can do (and probably better) and there are things that you can
accomplish in this life that a man could never even dream of...
because they were destined to be accomplished by you.
So
if you see a glass ceiling, know that it's only there so you can
shatter it.
Know
that you are beautiful just as you are...and you my dear, are more
than enough. You are perfection.
These
are the words I pray my little Maiya will hear throughout her life
from not just me, but from all the men in her world. This is my
prayer of gratitude and hope for all women. This is a reflection of a
humbled and awe struck man who had the bounty of witnessing the
power, the supremacy, and the radiance of the feminine.
This
is simply a love letter, a letter of love, and a letter filled with
love from a new father to anyone who needs to hear or read this.
If that's you, just know...
I love you.
Justin Baldoni
