I had read this before, but Mark Batterson reminded me of it with his Mother's Day post and I thought I'd share it with you just to remind all of you wonderful moms out there that you rock every day - not just on Mother's Day!
"When Tony Campolo was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, his wife was a stay-at-home mom. At faculty functions, she'd invariably get asked what she did and she'd say she was a full-time mom. The reaction was always the same. She felt patronized by the intelligentsia so she redefined her role.
One night at one of the events someone asked her what she did and she said, "I am socializing two Homo Sapiens in the dominant values of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order that they might be instruments for the transformation of the social order into the teleologically prescribed utopia inherent in the eschaton."
She paused a moment and then asked, "And what is it that you do?"
it cracked me up when matt read that quote on Sunday morning, cause on Saturday night when Ally and i were scouting out Nat. Comm.'s Saturday night service at Ebenezer's Coffeehouse in DC, the woman who spoke quoted the exact same thing!!! i was like "man, ive heard this twice now in less than 24 hours!"
Posted by: sarah wiegand | May 12, 2009 at 04:42 AM