Your vocation is your spouse. It is your spouse who is your path to heaven. Your priorities should be 1. God 2. Spouse 3. Children. God created lovers, not baby-producers. A part of being lovers, and of imaging God through our sexuality, is of course celebrating the fruitful creativity of your love. You are called to love your children and raise them to be men and women of God, but the purpose is that they may find their own vocation, their own path to God. Loving your children more than your spouse, or sacrificing your spouse’s needs for those of your children is wrong. Your vocation is to get your spouse to heaven, and to allow them to bring you to heaven.
You can see, in today’s career woman, the end result of this. Women of the past have put their children above their spouse, but then find themselves lacking meaning and purpose and true fulfillment, especially apparent when the children leave the home. Over time women realized this, but rather than correcting themselves and putting their focus and attention back on their vocation, they chose to pursue careers. Now they have placed themselves over all three things which are meant to be top priorities, and are emptier than ever. They have found themselves in the situation of ambitious men who have failed to keep God, their wives and the fruits of that love the center of their attention.
If you love God, you will love your spouse.
If you love your spouse, you will love your children.
If you love your children, you will love your neighbors.
This cannot be inverted.
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Here's a little suggestion to make visible that thought. Don't ever let your kids sit between you and your spouse (especially at Mass). They can sit on our laps but not between us. That's my way of saying to all that not even our little ones can come between us.
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