"I wish I had a life!" I sometimes hear mothers making this statement.
Dear mothers, you HAVE A LIFE! An amazing life! The most important career in the nation! You are training godly children to impact this nation for God. You couldn't spend your life in a more important vocation!
Deuteronomy 32:46-47 says: "Command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. For it is not a vain thing for you; because IT IS YOUR LIFE." Did you get that? It’s your life. Stop thinking about another life you could have. This is the life God has given to you right now. Embrace it. Rejoice in it.
Your greatest vocation in life is to diligently mother and teach your children in the ways and commandments of the Lord. It's a full-time career! And not one minute with your children will be wasted. It is not a vain thing. It has eternal value. Every day you are not only preparing children to impact this world, but you are molding them for eternity.
Have a GREAT LIFE today with your children. It’s your attitude that will determine the outcome!
Be blessed,
Nancy Campbell
We talked yesterday how God sees the mothering and home managing works we do in our home as GOOD THINGS. But He also tells us how to do them. God doesn’t leave us in the dark about anything!
This quote is both true and false. We do not train our children to think they can do whatever they want to do, because many choices can be selfish or unbiblical choice that would ruin their lives. However, we encourage them to dream and think outside the box and that God can enable them by the power and leading of His Spirit to do things that no one has ever done before. Things that will bless others and advance the kingdom of God in earth. 
What are the older women to teach the younger women? Titus 2:3 says that they are to "be teachers of GOOD THINGS.”
What are you teaching your children? It's easy to get into the mode of packing information into your children's brains, the more the better! But "information" is not education. "Right thinking" is education. Unless your children know how to think correctly, information won't do them a lot of good.
Most Christian organizations have a Mission Statement. Yes, we do have one for Above Rubies and I am happy to send it to you if you are interested.
Before the world began she was in God’s mind,
Did you know that God has a resting place for you? Our 21st century lives are so frantically busy that often we live in a state of turmoil instead of a state of rest. God says in Jeremiah 50:6: “My people . . . have forgotten their resting place.”
"There never has been a generation whose view of marriage is high enough."
As women we have the privilege of showing to the world what God’s maternal heart is like. By the way we embrace our mothering anointing we reveal or dampen the image of God. Dear mother, you are the manifestation of God’s motherly heart in this world. 
Do you feel as though you are overworked and underpaid? Sometimes you can feel like this as a mother. But don’t despair, you will receive your pay.
I love this picture Evangeline painted for her wall of her and Howard and their ten children. They were at the ocean, all praising God together. The children now now range from 25 - 8 years. They had longed for more, but no more came. Although at nearly 53 years she still keeps believing! And chides me if I don’t keep believing with her! Fertility is a very special gift from God. We should always be open to God for His gifts in the time of our visitation. We never know how long it will last. 
Have you got on to the new podcast yet? At last I am doing a podcast for you. It’s called FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS. Each week I share with you treasures from God’s Word that will encourage you in your high calling of being a wife and mother. From time to time I will introduce you to members of our family and other special guests.
The message of the cross is not a popular message, is it? When we are faced with the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Son of God on the cross, it challenges us to give up our own lives. The great missionary, C. T. Studd wrote: “If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
Vicki Goldby, an Above Rubies mother in England posted this in response to my post below, WHAT’S THE PREDOMINANT THEME IN YOUR HOME? I have met Vicki and her lovely family on many occasions when ministering in England. I can’t count how many Above Rubies retreats she has attended. I loved what she wrote and want to share it with you here:
God loves fruitfulness. His first words to mankind were “Be fruitful.” Sadly. We don’t live in a perfect world and there are those who cannot at this time conceive (never give up hope). Our God is a God of miracles. The important thing is to have the right heart and attitude and always be open to fruitfulness. Intended sterility is the opposite of God’s way. 
What is the preeminent theme of your home? In some homes it is sport, or education, or perhaps being realistic today, social media! We reveal what is preeminent by the time and number of hours we spend on it each day.
I am sure that when you teach your children to a task that you teach them to do it well. You don’t stand for shoddy work. You teach them to do it to the best of their ability. Of course, the best way to teach them is to show this example yourself. Isn’t that so true? How can we teach our children excellence if we do shoddy work ourselves?
We usually think of food being only for the body, but the Bible tells us that food is also for our hearts. Acts 14:17 tells us that God loves to fill our HEARTS with food and gladness. He doesn’t even mention our bodies.
So true. We have the power to make our homes a place of healing, joy, peace, creativity, productivity, hospitality, and loveliness and whatever you want it to be. But the home also has the power to make us. As we embrace the vision of our home it makes us into the woman God wants us to be. God does not intend mothers to compete in the rat race of the career world, but to be queens of their home. Building strong homes that ultimately build a strong and great nation.