When I was pregnant with my second daughter I wondered how I could ever love another child as much as I loved my first. After she was born I quickly found out that my ability to love increased and it wasn’t an issue. When I was pregnant with my third child I wondered how I could ever love a boy as much as I loved my girls, and of course he was born and I found out that I was worried for nothing. I loved him just as much as my girls. After that I quit worrying about it and never wondered again if I had the capacity to love another child coming into our home and lives. In thinking about it I realized that love is like a lit candle that when I light another candle the first candle is not diminished at all in it’s flame and ability to give light, and the second candle’s flame is just as strong. No matter how many candles I light the original and subsequent flames are not diminished and together the candles create even more light.
