https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-51052 Sun, 17 Dec 2023 01:42:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-51052 Spot on, but older men might help too. I might be nearly seventy but my best friend is a mom of just twenty three years with two children, one five, the other two. She suffers from mental health issues, as many do, she is also DSS reliant , no husband, and both her parents work full time. I am there for her most days, help is required with transport, getting the kids to school, shopping, holidays, day trips, it is an ideal opportunity for those that live alone. One does have to be able to afford to do this though, there is no financial support. The alternative to my support would likely be a broken family! http://www.celebritydiscodave.co.uk

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]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47074 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:01:08 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47074 […] The Greatest Need Of Young Mothers Is… David Murray offers an idea for ways older women can serve younger women in the church. […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47072 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:38:51 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47072 […] The Greatest Need of Young Mothers Is… […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47069 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:20:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47069 Helen, dear friend, do read my comments above

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47068 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:18:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47068 Helen, I have never stated that a mom cannot have a break. My contention is that it is not her greatest need. In our age of discontent and the influence of our feminist culture we need to encourage our young moms that what they are doing is important and not something to be “delivered” from. Deliverance implies bondage. My mother-in-law was a support during 2 of my 14 years of homeschooling, until we moved hours away to where we had no extended family. She loved to spend time with my kids and I saw her influence and energy as a benefit to them. Now that she has dementia and no longer recognizes them I am glad they have such sweet memories of a loving and caring Oma. I love supporting and helping young moms who genuinely need help and even enjoy treating someone to a break so that they can shop or relax or clean, but I am not supportive of making our young moms feel that they have such a hard life caring for their husbands and children when the Lord only speaks of it as a blessing in His word. If we would study the context of Paul instructing the older women to teach the younger women to love their husbands and children, it is in the context of the younger women being new converts who have lost the support of their pagan extended families and only had the church to rely on for teaching in God’s ways of family life.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47066 Sun, 14 Dec 2014 02:29:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47066 Thank you, Dr. Murray for this great suggestion!
Many young mothers certainly need help, and they need to hear from us that it is very normal they need help.
But I also believe that every young mother (and every older one) is different. Each of us is very unique, with unique gifts and unique needs. And also, God’s Word speaks to each of us personally. God does not give us all the same job; God loves diversity, as we can so clearly see in creation. God’s church is a body; and we are not all hands or ears or feet. We tend to think: If this is what God asked her to do, then I’m also asked to do it; and: if this is not o.k. for me, it is also not o.k for her.
But the Lord wants us to sit at His feet, as Mary, who choose the best, and to listen to Him. We need ears to what He want us to do in the first place, and not to the “teaching and nagging” of the whole (Christian) community. Today I read that Teellinck said, that true Godliness is being “freed to serve God.”
Yes, young mothers certainly need our help, and we will be greatly blessed by their children, if we help. But we also need eyes and ears, to see what help they personally need: “The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.”
Lastly, this is also a great opportunity to serve for our teenage daughters! They can attach themselves to a family, and help a few hours each week-great for both sides!

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47065 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:20:18 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47065 […] The indispensable David Murray offers an idea for ways older women can serve younger women in the church. […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47064 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 19:41:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47064 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/12/11/the-greatest-need-of-young-mothers-is/#comment-47062 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 15:11:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=19900#comment-47062 Sue, dear friend, do read my comment elsewhere -(21 hours ago)

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