Our mother
Praise the Lord for mothers who fulfill the calling of God to be devoted to their families! What a dismal place this world would be without them. I can testify firsthand that I know the difference a stay-at-home mother makes. Let none say that she could have used her days better! We love you, Mommy!
"Homemaking–being a full-time wife and mother–is not a destructive drought of uselessness but an overflowing oasis of opportunity; it is not a dreary cell to contain your talents and skills but a brilliant catalyst to channel creativity and energies into meaningful work; it is not a rope for binding your productivity in the marketplace, but reins for guiding your posterity in the home; it is not an oppressive restrain of intellectual prowess for the community, but a release of wise instruction to your own household; it is not the bitter assignment of inferiority to your person, but the bright assurance of the ingenuity of God's plan for complementarity of the sexes, especially as worked out in God's plan for marriage; it is neither limitation of gifts available nor stinginess in distributing the benefits of those gifts, but rather the multiplication of a mother's legacy to the generations to come and the generous bestowal of all God meant a mother to give to those He entrusted to her care."
-Dorothy Kelley Patterson,
-Dorothy Kelley Patterson,
Where's Mom? The High Calling of Wives and Mothers, pg. 47
May 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Amen! What a great reminder for me not to take for granted the incredible gift God has given me of a Godly mother!