Here is a woman who makes a career of her family without slip ping into martyrdom over it. Small wonder that “her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her." As a teacher retired to the kitch en, I know how taxing the adjust ment can be. And I find that it is an adjustment which one goes on making—with changes to be made as each additional child joins the family. But I have found that for a woman whose interests lie in mat ters intellectual and spiritual, the home is an ideal place to go on growing. Boredom is not a prob
lem—but organizing is. With dis cipline, however, one can go on reading, thinking, developing. Meanwhile, watching my little children develop "in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man" is a privilege I choose not to share with anyone else. I am a woman . . . a wife . . . a mother. Mine is the opportunity of grappling with the challenge of living and loving fully; of being a whole and mature woman en gaged in a ministry to my famliy. And that challenge is big enough for me.
Reprinted from Moody Monthly. Used by permission. Copyright 1971. Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
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