Don't you love it when a book speaks to the depths of your heart, and puts into words the things you just cant seem to articulate?
This moved me today:
She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing. Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ’s name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother’s heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers!
(from Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss)
Oh, that my little ones would be welcome to my heart, my time, my strength, my health, my tenderest cares, and my lifelong prayers!
((and yes, Tabitha, if you are reading this, I STILL have your book from, like, 5 years ago...))
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3 comments:
Love that book! I need to read it again. We're moving this weekend! to Christiansburg. Love your updates!
Oh, wow, Jenny! I was crying when I read this! I have to share this with others...and I have to read the book, too. Thank you, thank you for this! Love ya!
Awww ... thanks for sharing that quote, Jenny. And I did start wondering as I was reading what happened to my book and laughed out loud when I read your little message to me! No worries, friend. So glad it is still ministering to your heart. Keep it. I'll find another one soon. :) Hope you're doing well, sweet mama.
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