Juggling the daily demands of career and motherhood is challenging for many of today's working women. When the question of spirituality is raised they may feel as if they've dropped the ball. In Motherhood in the Balance, Catherine Wallace recounts her ordinary, and often hilarious, endeavors to stay sane as she learns to balance the demands of her career with the needs of her family, while adeptly describing the struggles of her relationship with God. Wallace examines her own encounters with a witty and persistent God who thinks that the real problem is not career-vs-kids, but call. This stand-off begins to crumble when a truce is called and the author realizes that nothing can separate us from the love of God.
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Bright, talented, hard-working, and fiercely determined to raise babies while maintaining a consuming career as a literary theorist on the university fast-track, Wallace (For Fidelity, Knopf, 1998) chronicles the tollAphysical exhaustion and illness, culminating in the denial of her tenureAof trying to achieve it all. Every woman who has nursed a baby through the wee hours while working on a report or deadline or worked the unpaid 24-hour shifts of motherhood will recognize herself in Wallace's stream-of-consciousness report. Humorous and scrappy, yet deeply reflective, Wallace recounts her staunch Irish Catholic upbringing, her struggle to forge a professional identity for herself, her involvement with a church community in turmoil, and, above all, her ongoing quest to make sense of God and to stay true to parenthood, her prime profession, regardless of the tugs and pulls of modern life.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Her humorous, touching, and deeply moving stories will strike a chord..." -- Welcome Home, November 1999
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This review is from: Dance Lessons: Moving to the Rhythm of a Crazy God (Hardcover)
Kate Wallace is a poet, a visionary, and a uniquely talented writer! As a seeker of God and His crazy ways, Kate does a masterful job of sharing her journey from highly skilled professional to dazed mother of three. She shares intimately her struggles with her various roles and calls. The reader laughs and cries as Kate paints fabulous word pictures of the pulls inherent in the life of a multi-talented, multi-optioned woman. The ups and downs, the joys and frustrations are artfully and beautifully addressed. This book should be read by every woman and used in a variety of discussion settings. Get two copies - one for yourself and one for someone you love.
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