Garden of Graces Episode 14 Nicole Pt4

Nicole Working Mom for 12 years of marriage

Sara & Karen stay at home moms

Balance vs Complement in Marriage and Family Life,

not equals but angels complement when best

All moms are working moms

Youth ministry

Work from home

In house attorney full time job nanny both parents working

Again with own practice work from home

What are goals for family?

Working fulltime thought wanted but was miserable

Profitable law practice from the house

Job works around the family

A lot of opportunities for women

Think what they want for family & goals as a woman

Stages of life now with children

Not men, most women want to be with their children, factor into working

Restoration of feminine work ethic

Women judged by feminine values not masculine qualities

Completion of who you are. Law broadened Nicole’s person

Vocation vs avocation

Women strong need to rise to level God’s call to us at the service of the family

Work supply’s wants vs fulfilling the person called to be

Dignity Women ‘be who you are’ JPII

#31The Church gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine “genius” which have appeared in the course of history, in the midst of all peoples and nations; she gives thanks for all the charisms which the Holy Spirit distributes to women in the history of the People of God, for all the victories which she owes to their faith, hope and charity: she gives thanks for all the fruits of feminine holiness.

Complement of each vocation piece together a whole

Union of both the choice of working and staying home mothers

Abigail & John Adams

Little House on the Prairie pioneer women

Men & women worked along together

Focus on career first, kids second, women can run out the biological clock

We are women not men and have different desires and goals