Posted in On Being a Wife and Mother
All mothers everywhere can use inspiration. I have been feeling exceedingly restless in the mothering department lately, and so have daily sought out words of wisdom mothers before me have left bobbing contentedly in their wakes. The one I am about to share with you I discovered yesterday, like a gem shining brilliantly through the caked on mud that seems to be me lately. It spoke to me so much that I have printed it off to place in a prominent spot of my (under construction) household management binder. Enjoy, and be soothed.
"I think I find most help in trying to look on all the interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one's work. then one can feel that perhaps one's true work-one's work for God-consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one's day. It is not a waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day-the part one can best off to God. After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it."
~Annie Kearny, 1825-1879
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