Today my heart is remembering this woman:
Briana Blackwelder
(Photo courtesy of Alisha Stamper)
Tragically, she was killed in a car accident near my home just two years ago.
She is one woman I hope to emulate someday;
one of my heroes.
From the first moment I met her I could feel her authenticity. She was a woman who lived according to truth and I couldn't help but admire her unassuming power.
She was a young midwife with an exceptional skill; caring for women.
Some of her close friends recorded this interview a short while before she passed away.
Watch it. You can't help but feel her goodness.
She can talk about anything and her vibrant spirit seeps through. Though she speaks mostly about her profession as a midwife, I love these universal words that apply to all of us:
"I think that we feel isolated in our burden,
or in our story.
Whatever we've gone through,
whatever was difficult for us,
that was just related to us.
It didn't really relate to a group of us....
But there isn't a lot of watering hole type activities
where we just come together and have conversations
about our experiences as women,
~and~
I think a shared burden is a lighter burden."
I hope to honor her in this way; at the watering hole, sharing burdens, so you can tell your story.
