This month, First Things offers for free "No Happy Harmony," in which Elizabeth Corey offers a deep and much-needed insight for our time. Career success requires focus on the self and a pursuit of excellence, while parenting requires focus on the other, namely one's children. I say "parenting" rather than "mothering" because, while motherhood is Corey's interest in this essay, I think her insight also gives us men something to consider as we negotiate those two aspects of our lives. This piece gets to the heart of the matter better than anything else I can remember reading, and with admirable brevity and clarity.
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