Message to all Women

Pictured two years ago welcoming our third newborn son’s first week at home. Yes, many things were easier with the third, and many new challenges arose. After a few content months, I became unsettled. With my nursing profession as a blue flame @jenniferfulwiler, I decided to take a job as a hospice Nurse Practitioner. As exciting as it was, the stress of a new job with a six-month-old affected my milk supply and began a slow weight gain journey for my baby. I determined to make it work, coming home between patients to feed him and trying different rotations. I even tried a part-time shift in a local nursing home. We continued to “make it work,” as the Lord “worked on me.” Covid hit, we were expecting again, and I then confidently decided to stay home. 

My journey didn’t end, but for today I’m sharing the truth that there is NO one right way to fulfill our feminine journey’s. Home full time, working full time, public school, homeschool, breastfeeding, bottlefeeding - the Lord calls each of us differently, in different stages of life. Yet, He works everything for good, and everything to fulfill the deepest desires of our hearts. Our babies, our highs, our lows are all part of our story in fulfilling our dreams. They’re not competitive, but complimentary.

We just need to keep our unique role as Christian women in the forefront. To pay close attention to the lies we’re believing, or the “I’m not enough,” we’re falling for. To listen to Edith Stein’s, “The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.” Our world today, and especially our men today, need us, just for who we are. Fulton Sheens, “To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her.” 

In whatever role you’re struggling to discern, remember that we’re not defined by our external circumstances, but by our internal identity. Remember our role as Christian women, as Christian mothers, is the most important, irreplaceable job in the entire world.

In Joy,

Alex