I am not a mother but I agree with the comments on motherhood. It is not only the toughest and most demanding calling--it is the noblest. My wife left her office job to take care of my children. Now that the children are a bit older [ages 8, 5, and 3] my wife started a canteen business.

I also agree - there's nothing more important than raising children. I just wish more mothers out there realized that truth.

Austin, you are so right, women need to grasp the fact that God has intrusted into their hands a very important job in raising children. There is no way a man can do the job as well as a mother can. My wife and I have raised three children and have been surrogate parents for about sixty other children over the years and when they had personal problems they made their way to my wife. She could console them in a way that I never could. Today we have people having babies who don't have a clue as to what the job is all about. Some are what I refer to as just being a life support system for a baby machine. They birth a life into this world and then leave the raising to the Grandparents or to the government. This in part is our generation's fault because we don't train our children to take care of their own buissness. We do have women today who are very good parents and who do raise their own children and I commend them. We also have young couples who have followed the examples of their parents who believe they don't have to work because the church or our government are supposed to take care of them, this is a dangerous way of life. We as adults need to get a hold of the problems that we face in this country before they get completely beyond repairing. I want to wish all of our parents a late Happy Mothers Day. God Bless all of you.

it is an act of sacrifice for a woman to quite her job for the sake of an good upbringing for her children...

Thanks to you guys who are so supportive of the women who choose to be fully there for their children instead of going to a job to earn money to buy luxuries. There are those mothers, of course, who must work to pay for basic necessities and they are to be commended for meeting their responsibility. God knows the motives of the heart and if a woman works out of necessity or for other reasons. I left a career type position to raise a child and it was a great sacrifice to lose the prestige of having a professional sounding job title. Also it was a challenge to keep the faith in trusting in God to provide for our needs. I do believe the children do benefit from having the mother with them during their growing up years when possible, especially when the mother is a committed Christian who can pass on those values. The mothers of our nation are a resource that so often have been devalued by our culture. Thanks for this devotion's message that "there is no calling of God more important than being a mom."

Our boys don't yet understand how blessed they are. While taking my wife out to lunch for MD yesterday, I leaned in and whispered to my 4-year old: "Did you know your mom is brilliant, that she could do any job she wanted, and make lots of money?"

Then I put my arm around him and continued, “But do you know what she wants to do more than anything else? She wants to stay home and be with you and your baby brother.”

My wife probably thought I was reminding him of his eating manners, but I was reminding him of something MUCH more important.

I agree that motherhood is the MOST important job in the world. The world, in fact, depends on well-rounded, godly, decent children becoming adults. I don't agree that it's the toughest, most demanding job in the world. I was a stay at home dad for 6 years, and now run my own company. I work TWICE as much, and TWICE as hard at this than raising my son!

Thanks, Mike Rich, for your comment and thoughts about the comparison of the two types of work. I think given my experience, raising one child is less complicated and demanding in most ways than the work that the mom or dad does who has more children. Having had only one gave me the opportunity to work part time caring for several children and it is TWICE the work, or THREE or FOUR times the work or MORE so remember that there are many mothers who are carrying a much heavier load than just one. I am glad you have been blessed with being able to be a part of both worlds. May God bless you and your family and your business.

I lost my Mom January First of this year. So this was my first Mother's Day without Mom in 55 years. It was easy to get through Sunday for the most part because I was at work most of the day. But when we gathered at my brother's home in Duluth,Ga. that night,it hit me. I started to tear up and my siblings and I stopped what we were talkihg about and took a moment to remember Mom.
Being a Mother IS the hardest job in the world! I'm glad my Mom loved the four of us equally and brought us up in the church. As she jokingly told me one time several years ago."The fact that the four of you did not make the NEWS makes me feel I've done a good job!"
Mom. You did a great job with the four of us and thank you for loving and caring for us.And now I am REALLY tearihg up!
Mom. I LOVE YOU! Happy belated Mother's Day.
Bob

Bob, Right now we are sitting by my Mother-in-law's bed, day and night just doing what we can and waiting. It is an awful thing but we know that we all will have to go thru the same door one day. I have not lost my Mother but I lost my Dad the day before Fathers day in 1989, so it takes alot away from that day each year but I just thank God for the Dad that I had. Now my Step-Dad is nearing death also so it looks like we are going thru this twice real soon. You won't ever get over losing your Mother but it will get easier. God Bless you and I will remember you in prayer.

Jerry.
I read your response to my comment,plus your earlier comment on Mother's Day. GOD bless you and your wife for raising your own kids and acting as surrogate parents to 60 others!
GOD will be with your through these troubling times ahead. I will keep you and your family in my prayers as well. Thank you for your response and thinking of me and my family. Being without Mom is the hardest thing I have ever had to go through. But you are right. It DOES get easier with time.
GOD be with you.

Bob is my husband; my heart breaks for him. I am blessed to still have my wonderful Mama. I thank my God everyday for a Mom who brought me up with discipline and values and taught me about God. I was always in church. My mom is a practicing nurse practitioner and helps a lot of people. She gives of herself, her time and her heart; she is one of God's angels still here on earth. I have been very sick in years past due to diabetes and surgeries and she has always been right beside me, taking care of me- she even insists on sleeping on those uncomfortable sofas in the hospital rooms just so she can take care of me. When people tell me I am just like my mom it makes me so proud; what a wonderful compliment! Bob and I were both blessed with sweet and loving mother-in-laws. Betty will forever be in my heart and memory. Mama, thank you for everything you ever did for me and taught me; most of all for my relationship with God and trying to serve Him as you do.
I love you!