Mothering Against Futility

Balancing Meaning and Mundanity in the Fear of the Lord

Simona Gorton

God uses repetitive, mundane work of motherhood

How motherhood points us to glory of God

Pulls themes from book of Ecclesiastes

This book was written to showcase how God uniquely uses the ‘vanity’ inherent in the work of motherhood to display the beauties of the gospel. The mundanity is a signpost pointing us to the glory of God if we’ll let it. In the calling of motherhood, God transforms our sight and opens our eyes to the gospel paradoxes of weakness as strength, smallness as glory, inefficiency as faithfulness. Our lives and actions, surrendered to Him like loaves and fishes, can become showpieces of gospel hope and glimpses of eternal joy.

Simona Gorton
Simona Gorton lives with her husband and three children in an old farmhouse in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which they love to fill with good food and better friends. Growing things out of the dirt, hearing her children’s made–up stories, and reading John Buchan are some of her greatest loves. She has authored youth and adult biographies of Elaine Townsend and worked as the International Operations Manager of 9Marks.