things I think about when I have time to think

I was speaking to a struggling friend at church tonight... ....and reflecting once again on how we were never meant to live under the extreme pressure s which are placed upon us. And yet, as women, most of us willingly take on these pressures, seeing it as normal to continually strive to do it all and be it all . I believe that God's design for us was to live in communities, caring for each other, nurturing, living together side-by-side as families and friends,    ...not isolated in our expensively mortgaged houses, struggling to maintain the expectations of coping, doing it alone,  ....either as working mothers, single parents, or stay-at-home mums struggling to meet the demands of caring for children without the generational support of grandmothers and aunties and nieces to help,  ....while our husbands, and often ourselves too, are out working long hours to pay for the lifestyles which we think we should be leading. I see this as