The Happy Role of Mother and Homemaker

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C. S. Lewis: The Ultimate Career

I believe the following quote I recently read by C.S. Lewis regarding the role of mothers and homemakers is 100% true: “The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” I hope all mothers will hold their heads high, enjoy inner peace, and feel happy as they do this glorious work!

Just as happiness and positivity is a state of mind, being a happy mother and homemaker is also a state of mind. The thoughts swirling around in your head directly affect your actions—for better or for worse—as you go about the responsibilities of caring for your family and your home. When you feel overwhelmed as a mother (and we all do from time to time), there is help available. Receiving personal inspiration from the Lord, observing good role models, reading inspiring books, eating a more nutritious diet, getting professional counseling, and sometimes even medication can help you learn better skills that will guide you in this divine calling of mother and homemaker. Intentionally spend time each day to train your brain to think optimistic thoughts about this “ultimate career.” 

This is a poem I wrote about motherhood in 1979 after my fifth child was born:

Birthright

I think somebody
once played a
joke on woman.

That somebody
slyly whispered in her ear that
if she used her own procreative powers
to provide a new life
she was only making an unnecessary sacrifice,
which just added to an
already over-populated world.

He told her
that using her talents and energy
to cuddle and care for a tiny child
was a meaningless responsibility
and waste of time,
which should be abandoned for something
more beautiful, glittering, and useful.

Many women
believed that somebody
without realizing to whom they were listening,
only to find as their life’s
days came slowly to an end
that they had sold their noble birthright
for a mess of pottage.

I believe that somebody was . . . Satan.

He deceived woman
the first time
nearly 6,000 years ago,
and he is still trying
to do it now
to me.

But, I refuse
to be deceived.

I simply refuse.