This is a wonderful short video interview recorded by the 'Desiring God' team, in which Rachel Pieh Jones reflects on the birth of her third child in Africa. At the time she was working there with her husband as part of a nongovernmental organization that aimed to serve the local population. The child was born in a dilapidated hospital in Djibouti, a country in the horn of Africa. Her American friends kept saying to her, you're such a brave mother. But as she reflected on the comments of the people she had met when she returned to the US, she concluded otherwise. Was she a 'brave' mother? No! She was a “desperate, breathless, dependent” mother depending on God. She concluded that bringing a child into the world and rearing him or her, even in the USA, also requires this same sense of dependency. This short 3 minute video is worth viewing.
You can also read about her experiences HERE.
Rachel Pieh Jones on Brave Mothering and Raising Children in Africa from Desiring God on Vimeo.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
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Thanks for this, Trevor. I have shared the link because I think it is such a powerful story about dependence on God as we raise our children. Rachel mentions the difficulties of managing the many influences on our children in an affluent society. No matter where we live, we do well if we can learn dependence on God.
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