Tag Archives: Motherhood

Oct 31 2011

Motherhood: The Sacred Duty

When mothering gets tough we would be wise to remember this--“O dear mothers, you have a very sacred trust reposed in you by God!

He hath in effect said to you, “Take this child and nurse it for Me, and I will give thee thy wages.” You are called to equip the future man of God, that he may be thoroughly furnished unto every good work. If God spares you, you may live to hear that pretty boy speak to thousands, and you will have the sweet reflection in your heart that the quiet teachings of the nursery led the man to love his God and serve Him.
Those who think that a woman detained at home by her little family is doing nothing, think the reverse of what is true. Scarcely can the godly mother quit her home for a place of worship; but dream not that she is lost to the work of the church; far from it, she is doing the best possible service for her Lord.
Mothers, the godly training of your offspring is your first and most pressing duty.”
~Charles Spurgeon
This post brought to you from A Wise Woman Builds Her Home.  Go check out her site.
Sep 23 2011

Comparisons

If you are a woman, as I suppose most of my readers to be, I am sure you have compared yourselves to your friends.  You think, “wow, that mom does a lot.”  Or “she has such a clean, organized house.”  Or “how does she run her home so effectively.”  Or “how does she have so much time to make such beautiful things.”  The list could go on and on.  I find myself comparing myself a lot lately. I’ll come home from wherever I’ve been or talk to my husband after reading blogs or facebook and be down on myself because I don’t do such and such.  But then I remember I have FOUR kids…three of whom are under 3!  AND God has not called me to be those other woman.  He has called me to be the mom of my four blessings and the wife to my husband.  No one else can do that. Lots of people can be the best business owner, or the most organized mom, or the most crafty, or whatever but no one and I mean no one else can be my kids mommy or my husband’s wife.  Remember this when you start to compare yourself with those around you because you know we all do.  There are certain things that God has called you to that no one else can do it.  Do these will all your might and God will bring you peace and joy as you fulfill His purpose.

Sep 23 2011

A Mother’s Love Chapter

I stole this from A Wise Woman Builds Her Home.  Go check out her blog for other encouraging posts.

If I talk to my children about what is right and what is wrong, but I have not love, I am like a ringing doorbell or pots banging in the kitchen. And though I know what stages they will go through, and understanding their growing pains, and can answer all their questions about life, and believe myself to be a devoted mother, but I have not love, I have nothing.

If I give up the fulfillment of a career to make my children’s lives better, and stay up all night sewing costumes or baking cookies at short notice, but grumble about lack of sleep, I have not love and accomplish nothing.

A loving mother is patient with her children’s immaturity and kind even when they are not; a loving mother is not jealous of their youth nor does she hold it over their heads whenever she has sacrificed for them.

A loving mother believe in her children; she hopes in each one’s individual ability to stand out as a light in a dark world; she endures every backache  and hearthache to accomplish that.

A loving mother never really dies. As for home-baked bread, it will be consumed and forgotten: as for spotless floors, they will soon gather dust and heel marks. As for children, right now toys, friends and food are all-important to them. But when they grow up, it will be their mother’s love that they will remember and pass on to others. In that way, she will live on.

So care, training and a loving mother reside in a home, these three but the greatest of these is a loving mother.

-Anonymous