Over the summer the Women's group at church have been working through Cynthia Heald's book "Becoming a Woman of Simplicity". I have found it helpful and although it does not specifically discuss Mothering, it does speak to issues that are very relevent to us as mothers.
One of the main points she raises can be summed up by this quote in the book, from Gordon MacDonald's father:
"Your challenge will not be in separating out the good from the bad, but in grabbing the best out of all the possible good".
Cynthia writes, "My concern is that we live in a world where doing, communicating, and possessing so rule our lives that we have allowed even good things to overtake our time and distract from the best."
She recalls,"I was involved in worthy things: helping in my childrens schools and activities, being in a garden club, serving in Sunday school, teaching a Bible study, inviting friends over for a meal. All of these activities were good, but my problem was that I was committed to doing them all at the same time. As a result I felt pulled in many directions and eventually realized that I was missing out on what was most important. My busy life was robbing me of my most precious relationships - my time with the Lord and my family...I was doing a lot of good things but they were taking the place of the most important. I needed to abide [in Him]."
"Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
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