{"id":116786,"date":"2025-01-30T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116786"},"modified":"2025-01-30T23:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T05:41:50","slug":"the-futility-of-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=116786","title":{"rendered":"The Futility of Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b6053bad-6196-4f71-8545-095cf94fadbe\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">Life is made up of so much that gives the appearance of being futile. There are so many tasks and responsibilities that we intellectually <em>know<\/em> to be important but emotionally <em>feel<\/em> to be fruitless. And if everyone struggles with this to varying degrees, I have it on good authority that mothers are prone to struggle with it to a greater degree than most.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"486442f4-e5af-4eec-9cfd-0d3c4fb933b3\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"b56d997a-b242-426b-bd10-69cf00a8e43a\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> Mothering Against Futility <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"12be03c8-b3eb-4ed7-9b31-04024126f5f8\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d2f9c3c3-ef4a-409f-8c7e-73b746905a03\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Simona Gorton<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"fa5ee6f1-8727-4824-b13b-88fe8d4866f3\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"aec5b1da-a009-4ff2-b8d4-e113a39369ae\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"a1df76ec-486b-4421-86b7-3e3dfb9f29dc\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/the-futility-of-motherhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b3df0fbc-802a-4fb9-8d82-bd3e289a356e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simona Gorton is familiar with the challenges of motherhood and the struggle to find significance in it. This is the subject of her book <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/the-futility-of-motherhood\/\">Mothering Against Futility: Balancing Meaning and Mundanity in the Fear of the Lord<\/a><\/em>. As she cared for her family and grappled with the mundane nature of so many of her tasks, she began to dig into the book of Ecclesiastes. She found that it spoke to so many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is made up of so much that gives the appearance of being futile. There are so many tasks and responsibilities that we intellectually know to be important but emotionally feel to be fruitless. And if everyone struggles with this to varying degrees, I have it on good authority that mothers are prone to struggle with it to a greater degree than most.See AlsoI Know It Broke Her HeartHer Weakness Is Her StrengthWhat Is a Writer Who Can\u2019t Write?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":116800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-116786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hans_Dahl_-_A_Summer_Day_on_a_Norwegian_Fjord_-_MeisterDrucke-891553-1-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C649&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116801,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116786\/revisions\/116801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}