Women's Work in the Balance

Womanhood has always been deeply connected to how we work. Through almost all of human history, and still in many places around the world today, work has been arranged around the necessary limitations of raising young children.

Our opportunity today is to view this not in a restrictive way, but to find ways to honor child-rearing work as beautiful without holding it as ultimate.

Because there are so many valuable ways to work. So many important contributions made by women—things they thought or said or dreamed *because* they were women. There have been wave makers as well as moments devoid of any metrics. Both are important.

Right now I’m feeling the restriction. Between the final stages of a tough pregnancy and the newfound challenges of managing virtual schooling (while I also try to show up for my own job), there are so many days when I want to quit.

But history reminds me that even the quiet contributions of women have been a powerful force. And despite times when society has valued them least, God says, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.”