(I read this essay on Mother’s Day 2024 as part of our church service.) I come from a family of four girls—no brothers. You might think that all that femininity and playing house and years of babysitting would have prepared me for motherhood, but there’s so much I wasn’t ready for…
I tend to shy away from anything that might awaken the latent legalist inside me, but my church’s recent focus on Sabbath has me curious, if slightly wary.