within a woman

within a woman
there swells a certain something
that later escapes.





Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 1

Can a mother forget the baby at her breast

and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget, I will not forget you!

Isaiah 49

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You created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made!
Psalm 139

You are he who took me from the womb;

you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

On you was I cast from my birth,

and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
Psalm 22

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Do not marvel that I said to you,
"You must be born again."

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound,
but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes.
So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
John 3