While nursing yesterday I spoke with Jeramy on the phone while he was at work. Moriah and Lily were sitting on the floor opposite me waiting patiently for me to finish. When I hung up the phone Moriah asked me where Daddy was and I told her that he was at work. Then she said, "When I grow up I'm not going to work." I was a little curious at first and didn't respond immediately. Then she quickly said, "I'm going to stay home and breastfeed babies." Then Lily looked at me and said the same thing. The conversation then turned to how many babies they were each going to have - how many boys and how many girls.
This unprompted conversation really gave me a lot of encouragement. As you can imagine, it is very difficult to stay home and raise four children four years old and younger. I find it especially difficult because I was raised for a career, not motherhood. Christ has redeemed me from that misplaced priority and brought me home with my children. Feminism is antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In the Gospel we find eternality and we raise the next generation with generations ahead in mind. Feminism and the post-modern worldview of our day tells us to look out only for ourselves in our own lifetime. The goals of personal peace and affluence die with you. But God calls us to raise the next generation to love and fear Him so that for generations, people might love and fear Him. Those expressed goals of my daughters let's me know that, although I fail often to exercise the fruits of the Spirit, there is something honorable and God-glorifying that I'm imparting to my children.
May Christ be praised!
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