I Never Want to Hear Another Woman Say, ‘I’m Just a Stay-at-Home Mom.’ by Cathe Laurie

By Cathe Laurie, The Stream, May 10, 2025

Cathe Laurie is the wife of Harvest Christian Fellowship Senior Pastor Greg Laurie. She is the founder and director of Virtue, the women’s ministry at Harvest Christian Fellowship, which for over 40 years has helped women discover a deeper relationship with God through studying the Scriptures. She is a Bible teacher, featured speaker on The Virtue Podcast with Cathe Laurie, and writer at harvest.org.

It’s been said that motherhood is the toughest job you’ll ever love.

I might add “and occasionally lament while crying for fear that you might be failing.” And yet the truth remains that motherhood — despite its messy glory — is the most important job in the world.

Genesis 3:16 tells us that, as a result of the Fall, women bring forth children “in pain and sorrow.” If that isn’t the most honest description of motherhood, I don’t know what is. There most certainly is pain, from that first contraction until the last teenage eye roll. But this I know for certain: It is pain with a purpose.

God was doing more than doling out punishment in the Garden — He was setting the stage for redemption. He decreed that the offspring of the woman would crush the serpent’s head. Not only in the ultimate promise of Jesus Christ defeating sin and death (that is the GREAT purpose), but in a secondary sense, motherhood itself transforms us. Think of it. Growing a tiny human inside your body for nine months, giving up your waistline, sleep, and any sense of normal control over your bladder. Then comes the indescribable physical ordeal of labor, which I can only assume is God’s way of proving that women are as tough as any guy out there. ….

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