Peter Marshall's Challenge

(I know quite a few of you have already read this , but I'm going to post it anyway.)

Peter Marshall, one-time chaplain to the U.S. Senate, exhorting American women, said the following:

The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge-that of being godly women. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now.
We hear about every other kind of women-beautiful women, smart woman, sophisticated women, career woman, talented women, divorced women.
But so seldom do we hear of a godly woman-or of a godly man either, for that matter.
I believe women come nearer fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else.
It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss america.
It is a greater achievment to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel, filled with filth.
It is a far, far better thing in the realms of morals to be old-fashioned than to be ultra-modern.
The world has enough women who know how to hold their cocktails, who have lost all their illusions and their faith.
The world has enough women who know how to be smart.
It needs women who are willing to be simple.
The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant.
It needs some who will be brave.
The world has enough women who are popular.
It needs more who will be pure.
We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.
Let us not fool ourselves-without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.
Physically, they will be perfect. Intellectually, they will be brilliant. But spiritually, they will be pagan. Let us not fool ourselves.
The twentieth century challenge to motherhood-when it is all boiled down-is that mothers will have an experince of God...a reality which they can pass on to their children.

The first time I read this I was brought to tears. In the world's eyes, the wife and mother at home is despised and looked down upon, but in God's eyes she is doing what he has called her to do. Lord willing, I hope to be a wife and mother at home. I think it the highest calling a woman can possess on this earth. The happiest and most content women I know are homemakers. That should tell you something!!
I except Mr. Marshall's challenge. Who will join me?