Mothering or nurturing is not just a calling for women who have biological or adopted children. Mothering is a calling for all women. Every Christian woman is called to the spiritual motherhood of making disciples of all nations.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

It is more important that you should know about the reverses than about the successes of the war. We shall have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but we have only the few hours before sunset in which to win them. We are not winning them as we should, because the fact of the reverses is so little realized, and the needed reinforcements are not forthcoming, as they would be in the position were thoroughly understood...So we have tried to tell you the truth the uninteresting, unromantic truth.

Yielding to God's will can be hard. And sometimes, it really hurts. But it always brings peace.

There is always the fantasy of maternal love, but it does not accommodate a mother's fear of her children.

...moms, even good ones, sometimes lose it a little so as not to lose it all.