"You Are Captivating, Celebrating a Mother's Heart" by Stasi Eldredge

Received this book from a dear mentor :)

I love it. Really...although there aren't many pages to the book.

It's written beautifully. Every chapter, though short, captures the heart of it all.

She quoted a passage from a book, and I find the passage really insightful.

"To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.
- What's Wrong with the World"

(My favourite lines are in bold)

To the mothers out there who have given up so many things so that they could be everything to their children..."You have done well."

To the mothers who struggle with how the world perceives full-time homemakers, "You have made such a beautiful choice."