Motherhood

WOW! Six posts in one day. I must be bored. No - the whole fam is still in bed so I'm trying to be quiet.

Another MUST SHARE. I know you guys are going to think Tommy Nelson is paying me for this but you just HAVE to read CAPTIVATING, by John & Stasi Eldredge. I just finished my second read-through and am participating in a book discussion next month.

In WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD, G.K. Chesterson wrote,

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays;

to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books;

to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene;

I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.

How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone?

No, a woman's function is laborious,

but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute."

Photograph by Dan Binkley of Dan Binkly Photography (Love that man!)