From My File Cabinet

I found some jewels in my drawers. Here is one:

"Motherhood is unique as a spiritual discipline because its practice requires neither ascetic withdrawal nor contemplative silence nor the acquisition of esoteric knowledge. You cannot mother from afar, only from the very center of daily life. It is the little choices that I make everyday as I practice my mothering - to be harsh or kind, giving or withholding, critical or affirming- which shape me and define me more clearly than any degree program or professional affiliation."
Cornelia Odom (CCL newsletter, 1993)