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Welcome to "Thoughts for Moms"
Dear Friends,
"Thoughts for Mom" is a special place to receive spiritual
sustenance related to the vocation of motherhood. Here I will post
various reflections — from popes, saints, and Catholic writers,
to my thoughts and yours — to help us better live our mission
as Moms, and to help us give our vocation the depth of meaning God
intended it to have.
Once
more, you and I both have something to share, so please join me
in adding meditations and personal insights in the comments section
under each post, or contacting me at holly@mothersruleoflife.com
with your own reflection to add.
God Bless,
Holly Pierlot
The Magnitude of Motherhood
"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, books, cakes, and boots; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene - I can understand how this can exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.... No, a woman's function is laborious; but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness..."
G.K. Chesterton, 'What's Wrong With the World, NY: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1927, p165
posted by Holly at 2:38 PM
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1 Comments:
Many think that the mothering tasks of family and home are "no-mind jobs" and of "lesser" dignity than other types of work.
I once heard that when ancient civilizations reached the point of having more leisure time, there was a subsequent moral decline in their society, and the esteem for manual labor and home life dropped considerably . So too, we live in an age that worships pleasure, not ultimate meaning.
The work we do in our homes and with our children mirrors the very work of God at Creation -- establishing a home, creating, loving , governing, educating. How can anything that ensures the survival of our family, (like cooking supper or keeping the home hygienic) be trivialized? How can educating our children be of little importance when education is THE tool for the transmission of culture?
God's work is our model here, and in everything we do, we are imaging Him. Mothers are important.
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