"May your soul not be disconnected from your body, as your clothes are unseeming upon your body."
In the movie Life With Father, I was enamored at the historical example of mothering expertise, delivered to us, through the good acting of Irene Dunne, when she doted on the souls of the boys in her care. That quote was from a scene where the doting and loving Christian mother noticed that her child was wearing clothes where the seams were coming undone.
How sad that generation gaps have taken us far from the interjections that can be the prayers that set the road for the generations before us. Much to replace the natural inclinations of the curses that donn our lips, through the fallenness of our race. The study of motherhood can lend us the words of love that God has preserved in our hidden humble characters around us. Motherhood desires the best for her child. Christian motherhood desires the best spiritual good for her offspring. Keep your soul in mind in the decisions of your life, my son, was the directive of the wise and Christian mother. The son let his pen note that, perhaps, the only reason that the entire household made it to glory, was because their mother was diligent to do battle with the world, the flesh and the devil, in their home. Perhaps the home is the only true sewing machine to seem soul with body. Either way, may God make us able seamstresses of soul and body.
