| | The art of motherhood
We have all heard it time and time before; What do you want to be when you grow up? What are you planning on doing with your life? Well, my response, its pretty simple, but the comments, there overwhelming. Now, why would you want to do that? I wouldnt do that if I where you. You know after you do that all your hopes and dreams have to leave? Well, what if this is my hope, my dream, the greatest job I could ever ask for. What is the occupation I am being discouraged from, rebuked for, and in many cases ridiculed for mentioning? I want to be a full time mom, I want the gift of a human life, and I want the privilege to hold that child in my arms, comfort my baby when hes hurt, and teach that precious gift in the way he should go. Hes not a consolation for a dream lost, he is the highest calling Christ could have ever laid on my heart. Motherhood is the greatest calling.
Why is motherhood degraded in socitity, undermined in the eyes of the world. Does a persons worth lie in there wealth, there status in the work force, or weather they have a doctorate or a high school diploma? What are we teaching the next generation and what are we challenging our children to stride for? Womans international center published a radical entitled womens history in America they stated that contraception and apportion have freed women from greater roles other then just motherhood just mother hood.
My belief is that a mothers job is to influence the minds of the nations, through the mouths of there children. 2Corenthians 2:2-3 says For you are a letter, written in our hearts, being manifested that you are the letter of Christ, not written with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but tablets of the human heat. David and Sherly Quine author of the book let us highly resolve goes on the say, Our children are Our letter to Christ, as we teach them, and as they grow, they are to be read by all men Our children will be able to offer the true map that directs them back to the personal infinite God.
You have a big job as a mom, you bind the wounds, comfort the fear, become that babes refuge there strength and their dependency. Young girls need to know that this is the highest calling, the greatest job, the most challenging one, and the most rewording.
Augustine was a forth cencery scalier, and was considered one of the greatest thinkers of all times, his mother Monica had him under the roman rule, witch is now called Algeria, Monica dedicated her life to raising him as a Christian, and soon she became known as a canceller and a peacemaker in turbulent times. Despite their pagan culture she led her husband to the Lord, right before his death, and her mother-in-law as well.
Augustine was seventeen when his father died, and he was sent to the university catherage for classical education, but the cathege was a desilete place, and he wallowed in carnal pleasures. Monica cried continually, and prayed for his soul, when Augustine did come to faith, years later, Monica rejoiced and told him her job was done, a week later she died.
Augustine, who went on to become one of the greatest saints of the church wrote this prayer. My mother your faithful servant, wept to you for me, shedding more tears for my spiritual death then others shed for the bodily death of a son, you heard her.
Catherin Booth was a mother of eight, who lived in the 1800s all throughout her life she called her to be a mother of the nations she was passionate about calling Christians out of the spiritual mediocrity into a vibrant relationship with Christ, and soon she became one of the most well known female evangelist in her country. Although she traveled to many other nations and worked, as a evangelist, he never neglected her children, yet dedicated each one of her eight children infancy to serve God, we are made for longer ends then a compass she constantly exhorted in her children. Cathens radiant spiritual life and personal pursuit of Christ becomes a map that led her children into Gods endless frontier. Each one of her eight children wholeheartedly devoted their lives to Christ, every one of them ending up on full time ministry as a pastor or a missionary for expanding Gods Kingdom.
Catherin was one of the few women who lived a truly set apart life, and as a result she left a lagesy for her children, and her childrens children to follow.
Likewise my mom has been a corner stone in my life, in the life of my family and in many other youth she comes in contact with, my mom was always taught us to live out the greatest commandment. To first and formost love the Lord with all our heart, and next to love people, she values this over edgication, sports and activities. In setting these prioritys and living them out in her every day life she has been a witness to the community as well as the family. Both of my family work with youth, and in a world were unforchanity few teenagers have a good relationship with their parents they see the difference, they see what happens when Christ takes over the family, they see the love, the communication, the comfort and the warmth in out home, and they cetch on. Now youth are over constantly, many even call my parents mom and dad, you see she is a mom to many other who dont have moms. She instoded in my a passion for the word of God, as well as for teaching, and my hope and my prayer is that I will be able to touch hearts like she has, and become the mom that she has always been to us.
So what does Monica, Catherin and my mom have in common? They see motherhood as a mission from God, they emerge their children in prayer and never give up on them, they teach them morels to care for the less forchant and to love them unselfishly.
In times like these, we must remember that God looks with favor in mothers who nurturer small hearts and young minds and trean then up to impact the World, what Job what perfession is more importand then that?
In a world where motherhood is devaluates, degraded in America, we must go back to what our forefathers once said, when Abraham Lincoln said all that I am I awe to my mother and when Gorge Washington once said my mother is the most beautiful women I ever saw. All that I am I awe to my mother, I attribute all my success in the morel intellectual and physical education I received from her. Ribute all my success in the morel intellectual and physical education I received from her. You see Gorge says he wouldnt be who he was if it were not for his mother, and if it were not for his mother he would not be who he was, and if he were not who he was, where would this country be and where would each one of us be? Influcal mothers raise influential children and that is not a job that to be taken lightly. A job that my mom does not take lightly.
My mom has always tought me to be a big dreamer, at one point she even wrote a Eleanor Roosevelt quote on my bedroom wall. The fucher belongs to those who belive in the beauty of their dreams. Since I was five I wanted to swim in the 2012 Olymics, Ive often wanted to Marry a mishanary and take the Gospil to a persecuted nation, but more then anything I want to make a mark on the heart of indivisals, influence society, and set a standerd for the generations to come. I dream to go into the greatest acupation known to womanhood, I dream of looking down at my little girl with a crooked part, messy pigtails and finger painted fingertips, I dream that her big brown eyes will look up at my and call me mommy.
I am not affrid to stand here and admit to you that my greatest dream in life is to someday be a mom, because a mothers work has eternal consequences |
