A Stay At Home Mom

God's Employee,

I am not a stay at home Mom. My husband has told me so. I was slightly taken aback. And all this time that is what I thought I was.

This morning, God nodded in agreement with my husband. He whispered in my ear as I read from His Word, “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent (us)” ~Jn 9:4

Epiphany moment: I am not a stay at home Mom. I am worker of Him. God’s employee.

I am having a paradigm shift. Seeing the world---my world---differently . My identity was wrapped up in these four walls, these 5 children. The rest of the world brought home a paycheck, and I brought home---well, I rarely left home----and when I did it was usually to bring home another babe in arms. I had forsaken my university education midstream, my pursuit of a career in educational psychology, my culturally-approved destination. In the closet of my own soul, I secretly nursed and wrestled with feelings of failure. I was simply a Mom who stayed at home.

But I am not. I am a God’s worker. I have a full-time 24/7 career, working for the King of the Universe. I have work orders. I am sent. I am on assignment.

This is not mere semantics. We become what we think.

If I identify myself as the culture does, as a “stay at home Mom”, one who has no intellectual contribution, gross-national product contribution or status symbol contribution, I become just that: a woman who sees herself as one who has grunted and groaned out another human being and now stays behind her four walls, in self-imposed seclusion. Not much of a vision there---it actually sounds strangely psychotic.

If I deem myself as a woman employed by the Creator of everything ever created, as on work assignment in a sacred domain for the sculpting of souls that will exist forever and forever without end, I have a burning passion of purpose. And a paycheck that is said to be beyond what eye or ear can even comprehend!

How does an engaged, vibrant, passionate woman forever vanquish the nagging, satanic lies that she is nothing more than a stay at home Mom?

Get Perspective:

~Hold a sleeping babe in your arms, mouth agape and warm breath drifting, and stand before a map of this world. Which would you rather have? Paris, New York, Tokyo, London------ or this flesh lying against yours, this one made in the image and likeness of the very Divine? This world is going to burn up, cinders for the universe….but your child is a soul without end, forever and ever existence. The world has pitifully, laughably little to offer in comparison to this holy opportunity to raise up a child.


Get into Position:
~There is a bloody battle brawling in the heavenlies for the souls of the next generation. And as a front-line, in-the-trenches warrior, it is a life and death matter that you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what the King’s orders are. The enemy will infiltrate the line and feed rumors of your insignificance, of your imminent defeat, of the hopelessness of your cause. Stay on your knees, mother on your knees, live on your knees. In that position, you will hear the voice of the King. And you’ll grow deaf to the whispered lies.

Get Going:
~ You are not a STAY at home anything. You are a woman on the move, a woman on journey. You are in perpetual spiritual pilgrimage. You are following your Master, your children traipsing behind. Everyday you are packing up and leaving behind one spiritual, emotional, physical time and space…..you are growing, your children are growing, your role in His Kingdom is growing….and at day’s end, you are somewhere very different. In a different heart space, in a different time space, in a different spiritual space. Take it seriously. You are not stagnantly staying anywhere. You are leading your children towards the Promise Land. Don’t get side-tracked, don’t laze about, don’t linger behind….God is moving before you, the Cloud is guiding you----Pack up and follow!

We are employed full-time. We have been sent. We are on assignment.

Get the word out---there has been a bizarre vanishing of "stay-at-home- Moms".

And on the scene is the arrival of a new woman: Soul Sculptors for the King of the Universe.