“The hardest job in
the world is also the best job in the world. Thank you, Moms!”
That’s the closing
line in this advertisement by Proctor & Gamble for the upcoming Summer
Olympics in London. 2.6 million people have watched this video online. One of those commented, “Watching this and
thinking, ‘Will I ever be a good mother?’”
As much as I liked the commercial, I thought it was potentially more
discouraging to mothers than encouraging. Why? I completely agree that being a
mom is the hardest job in the world. Having been raised by an exceptional mom
and now being married to an exceptional mom, there is no doubt it, it is the
hardest job in the world. But is what
makes it the hardest job in the world the fact that you have to do laundry,
take them to school, and bandage up their wounds? No, what makes it the hardest job in the world
I think has more to do with the fact that you do all of those little things and
rarely do you hear, “Thank you, Mom. I love you.” What makes it the hardest job in the world is
watching watch those little, or formerly little ones, go through sickness and
heartache that you can’t heal. What makes it the hardest job in the world is watching
them grow up and make bad decisions that you can’t change.
And is it really true that what makes being a mom the best
job in the world the fact that your child competes and succeeds in the Olympics
and that makes it all worth it? What
about those kids who grow up and just do ordinary stuff the rest of their
life? Sometimes, what makes it the best
job in the world is the fact that your kid is still living. Sometimes what
makes it the best job in the world is that your child grows up and learns from
their mistakes. But sometimes they don’t
and they never get it together.
But it’s still the best job in the world because for the
most part, mother’s never stop being moms.
They keep doing it and loving.
What other job is there where you put so much into it and potentially
get so “little” out of it but you keep the job? In any other job like that , a
person would just quit, but not moms.
That’s the greatest proof that it’s the best job in the world.
Why do moms do that?
1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 says, “Be we were gentle among you, like a nursing
mother taking care of her own children. So, being affectionately desirous of
you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our
own selves, because you had become dear to us.” It’s because children are dear
to their mothers. It’s because moms are affectionately desirous of their
children. Therefore they give themselves
away no matter the outcome or result. And that’s a small, but beautiful picture
of God’s love for sinners through Christ: affectionately desirous and self-sacrificing
for our good.
Therefore, to all the moms this month who have raised just
ordinary kids, like me, you really do have the hardest and best job in the
world and we are glad you never quit.
And to all of us ordinary kids who have been raised by these
extraordinary moms, “rise up and call her blessed.”
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