my career

one day last week

when i was feeling particularly low--

overwhelmed with my limitations and feelings of failure as a mom

 this quote arrived in the mail;

sent to me by mark's grandmother

it was just the encouragement i needed

and a reminder of God's specific care

as He spoke to me from a very unexpected place

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area,

deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays;

to be Whiteley withing 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 larger career 

to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three

and 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

but because it is gigantic,

not because it is minute."

GK Chesterson