There is a Time for Everything

How do women manage to follow their dreams, in the midst of the husband, home, children?

"Women today are encouraged by some to have it all: money, travel, marriage, motherhood, and separate careers in the world. . . However, you cannot do all these things well at the same time.

You cannot eat all of the pastries in the baking shop at once. You will get a tummyache. You cannot be a 100-percent wife, a 100-percent mother, a 100-percent Church worker, a 100-percent career person, and a 100-percent public-service person at the same time. How can all of these roles be coordinated? I suggest that you can have it sequentially.

Sequentially is a big word meaning to do things one at a time at different times." - James Faust

There is time for everything as it says in The Book of Ecclesiastes:

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born,
and a time to die;
a time to plant,
and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill,
and a time to heal;
a time to break down,
and a time to build up;

A time to weep,
and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn,
and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones,
and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace,
and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get,
and a time to lose;
a time to keep,
and a time to cast away;

A time to rend,
and a time to sow;
a time to keep silence,
and a time to speak;

A time to love,
and a time to hate;
a time of war;
and a time of peace.


Then the superior poet steps in and wraps up the whole argument in less than half the words:

" Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all... "
Hamlet 5 ii, Shakespeare.

"Just focus for a while on God, you, your family and your home. You set out such large scale plans for yourself trying to better yourself in every aspect that you forget that most great people focused on one thing and one thing alone and you do not have that luxury.

I truly believe that if you took one aspect of your life that you would truly excel however as a servant, ‘lover’, mother, daughter, daughter in law, friend etc you have many responsibilities and you do them so well but just for a moment forget worrying about achieving all these things and live for the moment.

The power of now tells you that you can only affect what is around you now and there is no point in worrying about the future or concerning yourself with the past." - The Monk

This article was inspired by J x
and also R.S :)