Christian motherhood means dedicating your entire life in service of others. It means standing beside your husband, following him, and investing in the lives of children whom you hope will both survive you and surpass you. It means forgoing present satisfaction for eternal rewards. It means investing in the lives of others who may never fully appreciate your sacrifice or comprehend the depth of your love And it means doing all these things, not because you will receive the praise of man — for you will not — but because God made you to be a woman and a mother, and there is great contentment in that biblical calling
~D. Phillips
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An interesting thought "So why must we pray about whether or not to send our kids away to be trained by institutions for the best forty hours of every week? Most parents won't share their car keys or pin numbers with anyone, yet they'll give strangers complete, unsupervised access to their most valuable treasures--their offspring--without a second thought."
excerpt from the Old Schoolhouse magazine article "The Princess or the Pack Mule" by Denise Mira
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"Those that trust in God, though they have great families and small incomes, can cheerfully hope that He who sends mouths will send meat. He who feeds the brood of the ravens, will not starve the seed of the righteous."
~Matthew Henry, comment on Genesis 30:25-26
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"When
a woman, considering to what she has been called, does not refuse to
endure the pains, or rather the fearful anguish, of parturition, or
anxiety about anything else that belongs to her duty, God values this
obedience more highly than if, in some other manner, she made a great
display of heroic virtues, while she refused to obey the calling of
God.”
~John Calvin
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