Finding Your Purpose As A Mom- Part I
Last year I bought the book Finding Your Purpose As A Mom by Donna Otto and have really enjoyed it! I'm reading it a second time for book club and thought I would share some of my favorite passages. There's a lot of wisdom to be gleaned from this book- It's $9 on Amazon- go buy a copy!
The book is divided into four parts: It Begins with You, Making Your Home a Place of Love and Peace, Making Your Home a Place of Growth and Making Your Home a Place of Service.
Part I: It Begins With You
"I've come to cherish the understanding that my home and my family are not only God's gifts to me, but a holy trust. They are central to God's purpose for my life- his chosen vehicles for bringing about the future. Home is a place for me to live and to leave a legacy- to build something lasting on holy ground"
"I want to help you make heart-deep decisions about who you are in relation to your home and family...and who God wants you to be. How you use this will depend on your circumstances...but the heart of of what I want to share with you is not what to do but who you are and how you think."
"I hope I can sway you to think both intentionally and counterculturally about what it means to be the mood setter in your house."
"Many women today are completely unaware that shaping a nurturing home environment, like any other important endeavor, takes planning, purpose, organization, and time. IF we want our homes to be warm and welcoming and to be successful at raising saints for the King, we need to arrange for that to happen. We need to do it on purpose."
"Countercultural thinking is absolutely critical....We live in a society that features entire cable channels about "house beautiful", whetting our appetites for homemade bread...and crisp, fragerant hand-embroidered sheets-yet seems to assume we can do it all in a few hours in the evenings after a hard day at the office."
"It's a culture that glorifies "nurturing children"...and deeply distrusts people who choose to make nurturing their entire career."
"Any change in your environment has to begin with the woman you are. It must begin with your understanding of who you are as a woman of God, with your vision for what he wants in your life to be and your plan for making that vision a realty. God has gifted you with the ability and the responsibility to shape your home to his glory. And this is true no matter what your circumstance are- whether you're married or single, employed outside the home or not, surrounded by children or looking forward someday to a family of your own. And it's true whether you are a mature, insightful woman who has made all the right choices or you are looking around at the ruins of your own home life and wondering how in the world you can ever get there from here."
"You may find yourself in circumstances vastly different from what you always imagined...None of us can predict the course of our lives, but we can choose to put our lives in the hands of the One who knows our end from our beginning."
"God's intention overall is to bless you- in your life as a woman, and in your life at home."
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