MOTHERHOOD

"About every true mother there is a sancity of martyrdom-
and when she is no more in the body, her children see her with
the ring of light around her head."

Godey's Lady's Book, 1867

THE ART OF DOMESTIC BLISS

.....in a time lacking in certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of it's lost heart. -Louise Bogan
“And there are my children!
My darling, precious children!
For their sakes I am continually constrained
to seek after an amended, a sanctified life;
what I want them to become
I must become myself”.

~ Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

New Easter Traditions


Start a New Tradition.....Celebrate Secular Easter Traditions on Saturday

Consider making Saturday – the day before Easter – the day to celebrate all the secular traditions your family enjoys. Trade Easter baskets and hunt for eggs on Easter Saturday, and reserve Easter Sunday for religious observance of the holiday. It may take a while for children to get used to the idea of Easter as a strictly religious day, but it communicates deep love and reverence for Jesus Christ and keeps him at the center of the holiday.

Colored eggs, baby chicks, and new clothes may symbolize new life, but they are not very effective reminders of Jesus and his resurrection. Put the focus on Christ this Easter with these activities for children in your Family Home Evening, or as new Easter traditions in your family.


Resurrection Easter Egg Hunt


Fill dozens of plastic Easter eggs with pieces of candy and include pictures representing Jesus or scenes from the Bible. Include one very special "resurrection egg" that is completely empty inside. Try to drum up the children's enthusiasm and get them excited to find this one special egg. Designate the finder of the resurrection egg the "winner" and use the opportunity to talk briefly about the empty tomb and Christ rising from the dead.
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An Island of Security....A Mother at Home

Very largely does the wife hold in her hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness and the highest good of the hearts that nestle there. In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife.
  • Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere.
  • Her hands fashion its beauty.
  • Her heart makes its love.
And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be . . .

the light,
the joy,
the blessing,
the inspiration,
of a home.

The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.

A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness.

God sends many beautiful things to this world,

many noble gifts;

but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows

in a mother

who has learned love's lessons well,

and has realized something of the meaning

of her sacred calling.










~ J. R. Miller, "Secrets of Happy Home Life, 1894" ~

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