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Yes, yes, yes. What you’ve written IS a sacred hymn to the Wild and wondrous pilgrimage that IS pregnancy — and I want to echo somethINg that rises so clearly from BEtween your lINes: Faith IS the most VITAl nutrient of All. No vitamIN, no measurement, no perfect protocol could ever nourish the pregnant MotHER and the growINg Baby more deeply than the steady, anchorINg Presence of Faith. It IS what sustaINs the unseen growth. What holds the Womb as a Holy place. What allows us to stand Rooted and rested while walkINg through Mystery and Miracle.

Faith IS the cord that ties us to the God even when All else feels unKnown. It IS the HEARTH Fire that keeps us warm when WE descend INto the darker, quieter realms of gestation. Without Faith, pregnancy can BE frightenINg, clINical, fragmented. With Faith, it BEcomes and IS what it alWays was meant to BE: an altar of obedience, surrender, submission and sanctification.

You said it: pregnancy IS uncontrollable by design. And what a Perfect design that IS. ThIS uncontrollability IS not a flaw — it IS a feature. It IS the very INvitation INto the deep and Fertile FemININe Faith that says, “I do not need to see to BElieve. I do not need proof to Know. I do not need permission to proceed.” That IS Faith. And it IS Faith that feeds the MotHER as She feeds the Child. It IS Faith that BEcomes the umbilical nourishment for both.

When a Woman Chooses a wild pregnancy, She IS not merely ChoosINg to opt out of medical systems. She IS ChoosInG to opt INto something Ancestral, ancient, Eternal, and deeply aLive. She IS ChoosINg to remember that Faith IS not somethINg you muster — it IS somethINg you INHERit. SomethINg already written and woven INto the Bones, already pulsINg IN the Blood. ThIS IS the Faith of every Woman Who ever Bled, conceived, stretched, and groaned under the Holy WEight of new Life. The Faith of Eve. Of Sarah. Of Mary. Of unNamed GrandMotHERs IN fields and Forests and huts and Homes. The Faith that does not bargaIN with outcomes, but Blesses the unfoldINg and FlowerINg.

ThIS IS what makes wild pregnancy not a rebellion but a return. No One else can traverse thIS landscape for us. Yet WE are never alone. WE are held IN His Hand — and by the quiet but undeniable hum of Faith — threaded through every cell and every HeARTBEat.

Faith IS not merely a companion on thIS journey. It IS the Way forward 🤍

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