The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. This poem by William Ross Wallace highlights the importance and potential of a mother. A community of support to today’s mothers is one of the best gifts we can give the next generation. When a mother is encouraged and strengthened, she can more easily see the beauty of her calling. She becomes the best parent she can be.

As a missionary in a third world country, contentment is a concept that seems to always have new depth of meaning to me. I am always tuned in to Bible references to contentment, people who are content, and those who seem to have mastered it! That’s why a simple three word phrase was so signifiant to me when I read Exodus 2:21- “Moses was content”