I do know; and I wonder, and admire.
To me the sight of any poor woman managing her family respectably and
thriftily, is one of the most surprising sights on earth, as it is one of
the most beautiful sights on earth. How she finds time for it, wit for
it, patience for it, courage for it, I cannot conceive. I have wondered
often why many a woman does not lie down and die, for sheer weariness of
body and soul. I have fancied often that God must give some special
grace to all good mothers, to enable them to do all that they do, and
bear all they bear. But still, the women who do most, who bring up their
families best, are surely those who obey their Lord's command, who give
their whole souls to each day's work, and think as little as they can of
to-morrow. With them, surely, the true wisdom is, not to fret, not to
plot, to do the duty which lies nearest them, and leave the rest to God;
to get each week's bill paid, trusting to God to send money for the week
to come; to get their children every day to school; to correct in them
each fault as it shews itself, without looking forward too much to how
the child will turn out at last.
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