My mother came over today to help me with the children while I took our 16 year old to take his 9th CLEP test. (While he tested, I ran to Sam’s club and Cub Foods in the pouring rain…waddling slowly and painfully through the parking lot and the store isles. I can’t wait to have this baby on the OUTSIDE soon. Everything hurts. And takes twice as long. And I’m rejoicing in every minute, by the way.)
She gave me some great Mother’s Day gifts…she is that way…always pouring out generous gifts on me…and this time her gift included John Piper’s Swan series, which I love. (I’m a book freak…looking forward to nursing another baby…I get LOTS of reading done.) Anyway…in her card to me, she enclosed a quote by G.K. Chesterton that I thought deserved to be posted here in honor of mother’s everywhere:
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a certain area deciding sales, banquets, labors,, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area teaching morals, manners, theology and hygiene. I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three and be a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?
No: A woman’s function is laborious because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
Thank you Heavenly Father for my own dear mother. She is a treasure.
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