Mighty Mothers
The Bible says: “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and
he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made
he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh:
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” Genesis 2:21-24 (KJV)
Steve Farrar, Family
Survival in the American Jungle, writes: “Over one hundred years ago, G.K. Chesterton asked: “Can anyone tell
me two things more vital to the race than these; what man shall marry what woman, and what shall be the first things taught
to their first child?” Chesterton goes on to comment that: “the daily operations surrounded her with very young
children, who needed to be taught not so much anything but everything. Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced
to a world. To put the matter shortly, a woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks
all the questions that there are, and some that there aren’t...Our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden
on women in order to keep common-sense in the world....But when people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not
merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination
conceive what they mean....If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might
drudge (at his work)....But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless, and of small import
to the soul, then I say give it up....”
How can it be an (important) career
to tell other people’s children about mathematics, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?...A
woman's function is laborious...not because it is minute, but because it is gigantic. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness
of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”
Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Psalm 50, 53, 60, 75
