One afternoon, she pulled a well-worn Christian parenting book off her bookshelf and, almost absentmindedly, began scanning the introduction. It didn’t take long before her eyes landed on a phrase so familiar from her young motherhood days: “Motherhood is a high calling. Perhaps the highest calling God can give a woman.” The words made her wince. She muttered under her breath, frustrated at the weighty and unrealistic expectations that had been laid upon mothers of her generation. Then ...
