Dear mothers,

Don’t be discouraged if the world thinks that “all you’re doing” is raising children. It is this discouragement that sets into the minds of far too many women that they are not doing enough in pouring themselves into their children. It is this discouragement that drives far too many women away from their home, away from their children, in pursuit of something “more”—more noble, more noticeable. 

But if you’re a mother, nothing is more valuable than giving yourself to your children and husband and home. It may not be noticed. It may not be applauded. It may be belittled by the world and sometimes even the church.

But it is biblical. It is the most valuable way you can spend your time and energy.

You are raising and teaching and nourishing little souls who need their mother and thrive in her presence and care. Don’t leave them for something “more.” There is nothing more.

You see it in every woman who has spent her life chasing selfish ambitions, that in the end all she really wanted was to be a mother and her soul hurts for suppressing that reality.

Don’t chase what the world tells you to chase. The world lies and leaves you empty. 

If God has blessed you with motherhood, He has given you full hands and a full heart and enough work to fill every moment of your days with eternal purpose.

Don’t trade that for something less. Children are worth more than that.

This is not an attack on women who need to work outside the home to provide. This is solely an encouragement for women to not feel like they need to work outside the home in order to be contributing something valuable to the world. This is the biggest lie feminism has sold to women, and its repercussions are devastating.

This is an encouragement to the women who, when bringing up their work in the home as a mother and homemaker, receive blank stares from other women who seemingly deem that not worthy of discussion, or perhaps, not worthy of inclusion in the topic of “work.” 

Somewhere along the way, the encouragement of—or even discussion of—homemaking has become offensive, and this is a tragedy. I will forever and unapologetically encourage mothers to stay home with their children and raise them up in the Lord with whole-hearted devotion. This shouldn’t be offensive. This shouldn’t be demeaned. It shouldn’t be controversial to encourage women to be home with their children. Whether it’s feasible for a woman to do so, that is a conversation of its own. But whether it’s good and worth promoting shouldn’t be controversial. Raising children is the most valuable work God has given to mothers, and that is a hill I will die on. 

“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only, and that is to support the ultimate career.”

-C.S. Lewis

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.”

-C.S. Lewis

“Admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed.”
-Titus 2:4-5