"Your body is the first thing any child of man ever wanted. Therefore dispose yourself to be loved, to be wanted, to be available. Be there for them with a vengeance. Be a gracious, bending woman. Incline your ear, your heart, your hands to them.... To be a Mother is to be the sacrament - the effective symbol - of place. Mothers do not make homes, they are our home." from Bed and Board, Robert Farrar Capon

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Quote for the Day

“Don’t be too easily convinced that God really wants you to do all sorts of work you needn’t do. 
Each must do his duty ‘in that state of life to which God has called him.’  Remember that a belief in the virtues of doing for doing’s sake is characteristically feminine, characteristically American, and characteristically modern: so that three veils may divide you from the correct view!  There can be intemperance in work just as in drink.  What feels like zeal may be only fidgets or even the flattering of one’s self-importance.  As MacDonald says, ‘In holy things may be unholy greed!’ And by doing what ‘one’s station and its duties’ does not demand, one can make oneself less fit for the duties it does demand and so commit some injustice.   Just you give Mary a chance as well as Martha!”

C.S. Lewis, Letters to An American Lady

5 comments:

  1. Wow, that is a good confirmation at this exact moment for me.
    My floor can wait, my baby can't. (And I will finish my floor without strife once my baby is content.)

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  2. So true. Pearls of wisdom. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Yes
    I've been trying to involve my girls in alot of things I do around the house . Like let's all clean the kitchen together ... Let's do laundry together ... Let's clean the boys room together...
    It seems to slow me down and help me talk to them.

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  4. There will always be house work, but I won't have a five month old forever. I am enjoying playing and talking to her!

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  5. "...doing for doing’s sake is characteristically feminine, characteristically American, and characteristically modern: so that three veils may divide you from the correct view!" CS Lewis is such a gift to us.

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