[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n Part 3 of Motherhood, Josie discusses the importance of earthly and celestial mothers with Amber Richardson of On Sovereign Wings and noted poet and author of Mother's Milk and I Gave Her A Name, Rachel Hunt Steenblik.

Our Church emphasizes motherhood as a woman's highest calling. "The Family: A Proclamation" is read out during General Conference and Sunday school meetings (and likely was during a lesson on the same date this episode published). But the rest of the world increasingly gauges value based off of a person's career, which also hardly defines everything about you. So how can a mother feel valued, regardless of which role she chooses for her life?

Amber is crowdsourcing a book, Woman, Crowned. You can learn more below.

Rachel's poetry can be found on Amazon:

Transcript

Josie:

[0:00] Hey TWiM this is Josie leave again here to introduce the final episode of the series and ask a question and the role of a mother how can a woman truly feel valued.

This is motherhood part 3 a conclusion.

[0:25] I remember a YSA devotional in back in 2011 or Kristen Oaks spoke.

It was the first time I heard her and I thought she was animated and funny and probably the first person I've ever heard talk to the single adults who have been single for most of her life.

I've never forgotten one phrase she said it was this.

I can sincerely say that no matter how exciting or fulfilling a career you should never sabotage your Eternal Happiness by sacrificing marriage for a job opportunity.

She almost laughed at the word job to exaggerate how little it mattered in comparison to the ideal plan of getting married and having kids.

[1:08] I had no intention of sabotaging my chances of getting married and I understood her point of emphasizing that marriage and family can bring Eternal happiness.

But at the time I was also excited to be starting out on my own career path and not just as a backup if my future husband struggles and his unscripted duty to financially provide.

Even now I along with many women enjoy the work we do and Dana's in the Valley from it.

[1:38] There are two competing ideas at church we are wonderful words about how valued women are and that their highest calling is to be mothers.

While our working culture ranks job titles above child-rearing abilities between these ideologies are a whole lot of women who feel guilty.

Working mothers feel guilt for not being at home with our kids more for being judged as a mother who has chosen other priorities about her most important role.

[2:08] Say all mothers worry about missing out on career opportunities or even being pushed out of conversations because what

could a person out of the workforce have to say about cryptocurrencies or climate change as if giving birth suddenly enables a woman incapable of talking about anything except potty training tactics.

Wasn't the whole point of a woman being able to choose whether or not she returned to work,

so that she not feel guilty that she can make a decision with her family of what suits them best.

I also wondered why is it always work that we come back to that gauges r value,

Derek Thompson a staff writer at the Atlantic going to the term orgasm in an article called orgasm is making Americans miserable,

he defines the term as the idea that work is the center of our lives at our culture now believes that the meaning of life can be found in our work,

a job used to just be a job but now we have careers of progression of titles ou...