“Increasingly, I find that women are
unsure about what it means to be a good mother. They are confused by a
culture that send them drastically mixed messages about the importance
of a mother’s influence and whet her priorities should be. As a result,
so many mothers I meet are baffled and frustrated. They don’t know how
to reconcile these conflicting messages with the calling of God on their
hearts and lives.
What’s the cure for this confusion? I
believe it lies with a rediscovery of the traditional mission of
motherhood, a rediscovery of what God had in mind when he designed
families. And the fundamental mission of motherhood now is the same as
it always was: to nurture, protect, and instruct children, to create a
home environment that enables them to learn and grow, to help them
develop a heart for God and His purposes, and to send them out into the
world prepared to live both fully and meaningfully. It’s up to us to
embrace that mission as our own, trusting God to walk us through the
details and to use our willing mothers’ hands as instruments of his
blessings.”
~Sally Clarkson, The Mission of Motherhood
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