The Highest Calling
Photo by Laelia Watt What is the highest calling? This question hit me the other day when I started realizing how many times I have heard people claim that 'the highest calling' in life is to be a parent, particularly a mother. I have also heard this same comparison as parenthood being 'the hardest job' in life. In the past I would nod inwardly to myself and agree, "Yes, being a parent is such an important job! Training children is difficult and rewarding, requiring wisdom and patience." It is still true, but I have a quarrel with the assertion that being a parent is somehow more important than any other calling God offers. Recently, when I kept reading various scriptures about callings and roles in the body of Christ, and finding in books, on the radio and even in secular culture this notion that being a parent supersedes any other purpose in life, the thought rubbed me the wrong way. Where in the Bible does it say that being a parent is "T...