“When the question is asked, ‘What part have the children in making the home-life?’ some one may answer, ‘The children cannot do anything … when they are young all they can do is to be rocked and petted while they are babies, and then as they grow larger go to school and eat and romp and wear out clothes. They cannot help in any way; they are only burdens.’
But wait a minute.
They are not so useless, after all. They are like the tiny wheels of the watch. They may not look large enough to be of any use, and yet there is not a child in any true home so small as to have no influence.
There is not even a baby that does not unconsciously affect all the home-life by its coming.
Indeed, every baby is an emperor, with crown and sceptre,
and from its throne on the mother’s bosom it rules all the house.
The father, out at work in the busy world, has a lighter, warmer heart because he is thinking of the baby at home. The mother gets through all her work more easily because her baby is sleeping in its crib or kicking up its heels on the floor beside her. The boys and girls are gentler, more quiet and more thoughtful since Baby came.
No one can say that any child is too small to have a part in making the home-life.”
-Home Making, J.R. Miller 1882
{For those of you who are waiting for your arms to be filled and your homes to blessed with children, my prayers are with you.
I do not post about the joys of babyhood to cause pain,
but to thank the Lord for His blessings and keep my eyes on an eternal perspective.
Thank you for understanding.}
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by Gigi
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