I am still IN LOVE with Katherine, the character in the amazing Stepping Heavenward. I am trying to slow down my reading to only a few passages a day so as not to end it to quickly! I will miss her so much! I am borrowing this book or I would have underlined every other sentence because her words are so rich, so descriptive I want to read them over and over.
I have gone back to read over this one passage in particular every day for the past week because I love the way she describes her feelings on bringing another baby into the family.
First, upon her new babies arrival her sister-in-law says that she shall now have "one mouth more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music and drawing."
Katherine goes on to say, "Well, this is one side of the story to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worthy all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am! How truly, how wondrously blessed!"
I love Kate because she is real and as much as she adores being a wife and mother she is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. She is often impatient, short-tempered, prideful and selfish and has to come back to the Lord for his grace and his strength. The book is written as a journal, so it is very raw, real and surprisingly relatable even to us "modern women." Love...
