Patricia's Reviews > A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World

As a woman who left her career to raise and ultimately homeschool her children, I felt bashed and devalued by this book. The only reason I persevered with it is because I was reading and discussing it with a group of women from my church. (You can't discuss that which you have not read.)

While many "godly womanhood" books bash the career mom, the pendulum swings the other way here. It is quite possible that a woman may find great fulfillment---and be following God's plan for her and, thus, building His Kingdom---through selfless giving to her family, neighbors, and friends. But the message I came away with here is that such giving is wasted, that it's certainly not work, nor a proper use of a woman's intelligence.

I would suggest that we women recognize that there is more than one way of living a God-honoring, Christian life. For some of us, home may be where God has called us; for others, His calling may be the workplace. Neither job is better or more godly than the other, and we gals would do well to extend grace to those who are on a different path than we ourselves are on.