One quote that summed up my attitude lately was, "I know she'll face days when she can't see the eternal in one more jar of pureed peas and that the laundry doesn't look noble, it just looks filthy."
I'm praying that instead of seeing just the external, I will more intentionally look for the eternal in my day to day laboring. (And am asking for perseverance till this wintery weather is passed and we can get out in the sunshine...I realize this is a unique season of life too and it will be a thing of the past soon enough!)
I want my attitude to reflect Dorothy Patterson's words below. I want to keep my legacy in mind as I structure my day, discipline my daughter, and teach her to serve joyfully. I want to be generous in spirit, humble in heart, and intentional in my laboring.
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 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.
Read the full length article by Heather Koerner here.
2 comments:
That is a convicting quote at the end of your post. I may have to write it up on my chalkboard in the kitchen if it'll all fit. I cannot tell you how often I have felt just the opposite...that I've been shoved in the corner, waiting to see this season of young motherhood pass so I can "really" serve. How my perspective needs to be constently confronted. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for the words of encouragement. How true and how needed... I'll come back to reflect on these and read the article again.
Thanks cousin!
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