A Moment to Consider
i felt this is so in line with what our church is currently addressing (through Pst. Kong's message on Making Marriage Work)
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The Mommy Test
Author Unknown
I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I
took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that.
"Why?" my daughter asked.
"Because it's been laying outside, you don't know where it's been, it's dirty and probably has germs" I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Wow! How do you know all this stuff?"
"Uh," ...I was thinking quickly, " All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don't let
you be a Mommy."
We walked along in silence for two or three minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information. "OH...I get it!"
she beamed, "So if you don't pass the test you have to be the daddy."
"Exactly" I replied back with a big smile on my face and joy in my heart.
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When June and I were married on Valentine's Day 1959 she worked at the office of the East Ohio Gas Company in
Cleveland. She worked there until she became pregnant and quit in October that year. Robin, the first of our five children,
was born on January 16th, 1960.
June's job was "mother first class," raising out children. Mine was daddy, supplying the income to raise the family. Life was
no easier then than it is today. Once, when a company I was employed by downsized and I lost my position with them, June
went out the next day and got a job at a service station so that I could search for another position.
When I found one several months later June quit at the Gulf station and went back to her number one job as a career
mother.
It seems like fewer woman are raising their children as their primary task. If you are an at home mom do not let anyone or
anything, except short term circumstances, shake you from that commitment. You will be honored by your husband and your children for your steadfastness in years to come.
For those of you that are mothers but have not been able to quit and take on mothering as your full time job you may want
to carefully consider and discuss with your husband the pros and cons of setting that as a goal. Perhaps a plan as to how
you might as a team achieve it could be put in place to accomplish it.
Proverbs 31 starts with "The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him." It shows that the things a
mother teaches her children, who become kings and queens, are remembered and passed on.
Moms must pass the mom's test and dads the dad's test.
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and
they shall be one flesh. (Ge 2:24)
Yes, there is grace for working moms or single working moms. One thing for certain however is that moms can't be
dads, and dads can't be moms. They can't pass the others test. They each have a God ordained role in the raising of their
children who are flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone, the manifestation of the prophesy, "They shall be one flesh."
This, as is each A Moment to Consider, is not intended to bring condemnation on anyone. That would be the work of
the enemy. The Lord's work through us is to help our readers think about faith and faith in practice. If the Lord is dealing
with a reader on a topic a "Moment" perhaps might bring that person to conviction about something through a message. At
times we really question if a message should be sent. When we hear, "Yes," the message is sent. When we get a "No," it
isn't.
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The Mommy Test
Author Unknown
I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I
took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that.
"Why?" my daughter asked.
"Because it's been laying outside, you don't know where it's been, it's dirty and probably has germs" I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Wow! How do you know all this stuff?"
"Uh," ...I was thinking quickly, " All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don't let
you be a Mommy."
We walked along in silence for two or three minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information. "OH...I get it!"
she beamed, "So if you don't pass the test you have to be the daddy."
"Exactly" I replied back with a big smile on my face and joy in my heart.
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When June and I were married on Valentine's Day 1959 she worked at the office of the East Ohio Gas Company in
Cleveland. She worked there until she became pregnant and quit in October that year. Robin, the first of our five children,
was born on January 16th, 1960.
June's job was "mother first class," raising out children. Mine was daddy, supplying the income to raise the family. Life was
no easier then than it is today. Once, when a company I was employed by downsized and I lost my position with them, June
went out the next day and got a job at a service station so that I could search for another position.
When I found one several months later June quit at the Gulf station and went back to her number one job as a career
mother.
It seems like fewer woman are raising their children as their primary task. If you are an at home mom do not let anyone or
anything, except short term circumstances, shake you from that commitment. You will be honored by your husband and your children for your steadfastness in years to come.
For those of you that are mothers but have not been able to quit and take on mothering as your full time job you may want
to carefully consider and discuss with your husband the pros and cons of setting that as a goal. Perhaps a plan as to how
you might as a team achieve it could be put in place to accomplish it.
Proverbs 31 starts with "The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him." It shows that the things a
mother teaches her children, who become kings and queens, are remembered and passed on.
Moms must pass the mom's test and dads the dad's test.
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his
mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and
they shall be one flesh. (Ge 2:24)
Yes, there is grace for working moms or single working moms. One thing for certain however is that moms can't be
dads, and dads can't be moms. They can't pass the others test. They each have a God ordained role in the raising of their
children who are flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone, the manifestation of the prophesy, "They shall be one flesh."
This, as is each A Moment to Consider, is not intended to bring condemnation on anyone. That would be the work of
the enemy. The Lord's work through us is to help our readers think about faith and faith in practice. If the Lord is dealing
with a reader on a topic a "Moment" perhaps might bring that person to conviction about something through a message. At
times we really question if a message should be sent. When we hear, "Yes," the message is sent. When we get a "No," it
isn't.
