I’m currently reading Beyond Bath Time: Embracing Motherhood as a Sacred Role by Erin Davis. I’m only a few chapters in and I’m really enjoying it. Read the Amazon reviews here. The Kindle format is currently on sale for $3.24.
I’m so taken with it that I’ve been taking screen shots every few pages and emailing them to Andrea. Some of the author’s passages are just so powerful.
This is one quote she included in her book. I’m sure I’ll work it into a talk at some point. Enjoy.
Years ago, before this generation of mothers was even born, our society decided where children rank in the list of important things. When abortion was legalized, we wrote it into law. Children rank way below college. Below world travel for sure. Below the ability to go out at night at your leisure. Below honing your body at the gym. Below any job you may have or hope to get.
In fact, children rate below your desire to sit around and pick your toes, if that is what you want to do.
Below everything.
Children are the last thing you should ever spend your time doing. If you grew up in this culture, it is very hard to get a biblical perspective on motherhood, to think like a free Christian woman about your life, your children.How much have we listened to partial truths and half lies? Do we believe that we want children because there is some biological urge, or the phantom “baby itch”? Are we really in this because of cute little clothes and photo opportunities? Is motherhood a rock-bottom job for those who can’t do more, or those who are satisfied with drudgery? If so, what were we thinking?
-Rachel Jankovic
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Children are the last thing, until they are the first thing at which point women will go to extraordinary lengths. The victims of the sexual revolution are many, but I am coming around right now, even as we speak, to the idea that I am one, and simultaneously responsible for my own actions. All of this comes down to concepts on freedom and control once again. I am writing a talk about mothering right now, what it means, how we diminish it. How I personally diminished it. I can’t point the finger here, unless it’s at the woman in the mirror.
Here here, motherhood can be a painful process these days in our culture. We’re so far removed from thinking of women as inherently mothers-to-be that many women, me included, have a difficult time coming to terms with their identity once they are in fact mothers. The reason there are so many mommy-blogs is because we’re all trying to piece together what motherhood is “supposed” to look like from the fractures left behind from the sexual revolution (and really the 2nd and 3rd wave of feminism). Publish your talk?