MOM. Who can clearly define who she is? Who really understands all that rests upon her shoulders and in her hands?
Over the past few decades, the role of mom has been devalued and the expectations of women to do it all have taken the much needed role and foundation of the mother right out of the home. Sad to say, society views a mom, who chooses to stay at home and raise her child, as unsuccessful and not ambitious enough to make it in the "real world". On the other end of that is the role of the working mom who is expected to be as successful as a man, in addition to keeping up the home while looking like a model and cooking life Rachel Ray!!! The pressure on women today, moms today, is unfair and completely and totally out of order. Sadly, the ones who are are suffering, due this this identity crisis in the home, are the children.
Why is it that things have gotten to upside down? It is my personal belief that, over the years, men have abdicated their God given place in the home. They have allowed women to be the sole voice in the childrens lives and slowly but surely, as men have layed down their position in the home, women, by default, began to pick it up as they felt the tipping of the scales. We have had 2 sides of this flipping coin. Over the decades, both men and women have begun to devalue the role of mom, and expect women to fill one role to the detriment of another.
Now, please do not misunderstand me here. I am, by no means, saying that a womans role is only at home, barefoot and pregnant. That would be very hypocritical of me being my past vocations as firefighter, medic and military. What I am passionate about and fighting for is that women start to revere being a mother with the same passion and view of success as anything else they pursue and, additionally, that Godly men start to rise up and cover their wives and mothers of their children, once again. There is power and safety in Godly order.
I have been blessed to be able to stay home with my children, but it has also been a choice I have made. It has been a sacrifice of time and a sacrifice financially, being a single income home. But, I would not change it for the world. The gifting and talents that I could easily use outside the home for profit, I use with my children. I pour all I have into them, as they are my legacy, just as your children are yours.
Mom's, whether your work inside our outside the home, at the end of the day, we are mother's FIRST (for those who are married, we are wives first, mothers second, keeping with Godly order) We give an account before God for how we have parented our children.
My true prayer is that the role, the heart of mother begin to beat again in the homes. That we start placing value on raising our children, being the heart of our home and creating a place where our families are loved and nurtured. It is a dog eat dog world out there, but it does not have to be "every man for himself" in the homes. That was never God's heart or design.
"Remember, the hearts of the future are cradled in the hands of mothers". #tamaraism
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