A couple of years ago (2017) I read a line in a stay-at-home mom book that I found very inspiring. It was from the book Free to Stay at Home by Marilee Horton. She writes, “God has endued women with the physical strength and mental acumen to carry out a job that in the business world would require at least ten experts. To that He has added a double portion of emotional sensitivity to deal with the variety of emotional beings under her roof.”

God equips women for many vocations outside of home life. I know by now that there are many impressive and long laboring women throughout the world who never had the title of stay-at-home mom. Something about that quote felt very validating for me though in the role that I was in. I cannot tell you how much I’ve suffered, how much my flesh has had to die, in order to do a job or live a life without need of applause or mourning the lack of it.

The emotional sensitivity I can attest to, though it sometimes seem like my particular portion was quadrupled and then some. I’m not sure where I’m going with this other than to say that my emotions sure have given me one h^%% of a ride (I am speaking of former things). For whatever reason though home has been the place that I was led to and chose. It’s the place I keep choosing, and when I do I feel the heart of my heavenly home closest to me.