“Mary did you know that your baby boy would one day walk on water?” If you’re like me, you may be moved to tears even after the seventy fourth time hearing this song.

I can’t remember how I felt when I first heard it, but I do know that I hear it differently with every year that passes for me as a mother of my own children…in many ways it makes us reflect on the responsibility raising our own children brings.

And this culture we live in - the one that tells us to achieve it all, and have it all (literally), and do it all - will do nothing to encourage us to fight against it. Because, you see, it’s the very reason we have all this noise.