Inspirational quotes
“This is the first lesson for the Christian wife and mother today: to let go of what may have once been – and under other circumstances might now be – a recollected self, and take on, with both hands, the plan of God. Indeed it is the lesson for every Christian in every age: it is the gospel principle of dying on one plane in order to live on another”.
Hubert van Zeller from Holiness for Housewives and other working women.
https://kellycasanovaweavinglessons.com/2011/01/this-is-first-lesson-for-christian-wife.html
Oops! Role reversal
Traditionally it’s the male in a relationship who forgets important days and dates.
This morning my husband came into the dining room grinning and wished me a very happy anniversary.
Gasp! How could I forget our 11th wedding anniversary?!! Unfortunately he has headed off to work and won’t be home until late this evening so no time for celebrations – instead I’ll leave a little tribute here.
Marriage. I love the beautiful sacrament of marriage. I love being married and I especially love the fact that I got to marry my best friend and truly the man of my dreams!
Here are a few inspirational quotes on marriage:
“Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.”
Pope John Paul II
It was God who brought Eve to Adam and gave her to him as his wife, and it is God, my friends, who with his invisible hand bound the know which united you and gave you to one another; therefore give good heed that you cherish a love which is holy, sacred and divine.
– Francis de Sales, the Devout Life
“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
G.K. Chesterton
Enjoy your weekend!
God bless.
Mothering
“If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home….
But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colourless, and of small import to the soul, then, as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean.
To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labours and holidays;
to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, books, cakes and boots;
to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene;
I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it.
How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?
No, a woman’s function is laborious; but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.
I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task;
I will never pity her for its smallness.”
G.K. Chesterton