You Need a PhD in Motherhood (no, really)

Some would deride the vision of those girls who choose to stay at home and prepare for being a wife to a man and a mother of children. We're seen as lazy, and purposeless, and idle-- while our counterparts are attending college and beginning careers in the wide world. 

Even we can begin to become lax -- it is so easy to let ourselves live a smooth life. To stop striving. To take this season of our lives to ourselves-- after all, we don't have a family to care for yet, and we do enough with helping keeping our parent's households running, don't we? It's okay if we are soft on ourselves, for after all, there's no young man on the horizon, and af-----

Stop. 

Look. Girls, listen to me. If those girls who are going into the work force are pouring these years into hard study and preparation.... to get a _job_?.... shouldn't we maybe..... take our preparation even more seriously? We're not just trying to gain skills to earn money. We're right now learning to become queens of our own households. We will have souls to train and mouths to feed and bodies to care for. We will have households to run and businesses to look after and our husband's vision to assist.  It will be our responsibility to see our families taken care of the best way possible. 

If a career girl is putting in long hours of college for her future job, we should be throwing our whole selves into learning every skill we possibly can to best care for our husbands and children 'someday'. Believe me, 'someday' is so, so close. You can't afford to lose the time you have now. 

You can't.

Living Intentionally: The Key to a Godly, Productive Life

 

Are you a learner? Are you striving to further your knowledge and gain understanding? Or are you just passively living your life, hoping you'll absorb by osmosis the wisdom around you?

Godly people and successful people have this in common:

they live intentionally.

A wise man shall hear, and increase in learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
(Proverbs 1:5-6)

You don't gain much knowledge just by listening. You have to actively listen, intentionally gain wisdom,seek understanding. It doesn't just happen. It takes work.

Will you live intentionally today?

(linked article on being an intentional reader and getting the most out of reading: http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/ )