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Wishing for a Bigger Bubble

  • Writer: roundrockadam
    roundrockadam
  • Mar 7, 2018
  • 2 min read

It is the Feast Day of Saint Perpetua and my heart is heavy as I think of her today. I chose the martyr as my confirmation saint when I was a teen. I wasn’t married and I had no children. But her story strikes me differently now that I am a parent. 

Saint Perpetua was captured and sentenced to death for being a Christian in the 200s. She was a widow. Her father was not a Christian and he didn’t support her. It made her the sole provider for her infant son. But Perpetua did not deny Christ as a strategy to ensure child care. They didn’t have formula back then, so as a nursing mom, she also had to entrust his feeding to others. I marvel over that in a way I did not during high school.

As a parent, I want so much to put my kids in a bubble and protect them from everything. Only yesterday, I read a story on the popular musical.ly and how many kids are enduring depression, suicidal thoughts and self harm with an audience of thousands urging them downward. I have been crying about it all day. 

And for some reason, my family has had several regrettable experiences lately, like my five year old’s discovery of some words I didn’t want her to know (and I don’t even say). Or my sixth grader’s learning from a classmate about an inappropriate game played at a slumber party. Or the story of a classmate who said something very inappropriate to another. Tempted this morning to homeschooling, I want to lock everything down and keep my kids’ eyes, ears, bodies, hearts and souls safe all by myself.

And then we have Saint Perpetua who trusted God that if He called her child to places she couldn’t go, He would handle it. She urges me as a parent to do my part and let God do His. 

It’s a high degree of trusting. I guess that’s why she’s a saint. I do wonder what happened to Saint Perpetua’s son. But I trust he turned out fine because she trusted. 

I am entrusting my kids to God as my patron did. He knows more than I do and has better resources. May God, who can protect them better than I can, cover them with His shield. And may Saint Perpetua pray for parents and children.


 
 
 

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