I have a weird habit of reading entire books, standing up, in the bookstore. Actually, it's just a cheap habit because I'm on a mommy budget these days, although it's nearly impossible for me to leave a bookstore without something new, shiny and wordy in a bag. Anyway, I was standing up in a favorite bookstore on Mother's Day, reading this book and killing time until Mirror, Mirror started in the theater next door.
It didn't contain anything earth-shattering - the main message was that you can still be highly successful in business without sacrificing your family and your faith. But I really liked the perspective of one CEO-type who said something along the lines of this: In the world, no matter how successful you are, no matter how important your job is, no matter how much you volunteer at church...you are replaceable. Someone can and will come up behind you and do what you're doing just as well, or even better. However, with the children you are privileged to parent...you are irreplaceable. No one else can be Dad (or Mom) to them the way you can. You cannot outsource your presence in their lives.
Comforting and daunting all at the same time, right? Daunting because it really makes you want to step up your game...No one else? Comforting because no matter how God brought you together, how flawed you are, how many mistakes you've made, how you've failed in the past...God did bring you together. No one else. Perhaps He's made you for such a time as this (Esther 4:14).
How does being "chosen" to be your children's mom play out in your life? Do you feel chosen or do you feel like anyone could do "Mom" for them?
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