I guess I come from the 'old school' of the mom staying at home. My mom was always at home with us...except when I was a baby from time to time when she would work at the library in our local town. I do remember my mom working at our school in the kitchen but she would always be home when we got there. I wholeheartedly believe that my place is at home. When I am asked "Do you work?" I want to smile and say "No, I stay home with 4 children, try to have a meal ready for my husband when he gets home, keep the laundry done, dust, mop, vacuum, iron, clean dishes, do schoolwork, sizzle out sisterly 'fights', keep the kitchen spic and span, give baths,---AND EAT BON BONS!" There's no question --- I DO WORK!! I just don't have a BIG paycheck in the sum of monies coming in! My blessings are far more rewarding (for the most part) than the big $$$ sign everyone is seeking more of. I just so happened to get on Revive Our Hearts today and saw this topic that was spoke on today. I cut and pasted a portion of it. I NEEDED it TODAY! To be honest, I look around (getting my eyes off Jesus and the REAL purpose for life--I had to admit that) and I see all these THINGS people have...big nice homes, new clothes it seems every SUNDAY, kids have MANY of their WANTS, and on and on and I think to myself...okay, how do they HAVE IT ALL? and we struggle from paycheck to paycheck? BUT there is PROBABLY one thing they MAY be missing out on...that is seeing the Lord provide over and over again! Our oldest girls are getting to the point their 'toys' are getting BIGGER and much more expensive! (not that they are getting them but their wish list so to speak) So we go through "I want a so and so like so and so--PLEASE? Why can't we get one?" Well, it boils down to mommy doesn't work outside the home so we don't get all those THINGS other people have.
This is taken from today's talk on Revive Our Hearts!
But there’s been a huge cultural shift within my lifetime. What I just described is no longer the case. In fact if you are younger than 40 or 35, you’ve probably never known a world in which what I just described is the norm.
Young women now are encouraged to make decisions about their schooling and their major based on the marketability of a degree. What kind of job can you get? How will it prepare you for a career? With little thought for if or how those decisions will prepare them to manage a home, raise a family and so on.
Society has demeaned and rejected those functions of marriage and parenting. Today it’s almost embarrassing for a young woman to admit that her primary aspiration in life is to be a godly wife and mother.
Why should a young woman have to be embarrassed to say that? Or why should she be made to feel, “You must not have a brain if that’s the way you’re thinking!” or “What are you going to do?” The fear and the unbelief and the devaluing of those roles is palpable.
In contrast, you have the biblical model which is what we’re committed to training women to embrace through the ministry of Revive Our Hearts, and during this year of the True Woman. We’re taking some of these issues on. They’re huge cultural issues.
Anytime I say something like this, I know we will get the letters and the emails, people taking issues. “Don’t you know? What planet did you get off of? Where did you come from?”
We’ve got to go back to the Scripture and realize that the home is a vital part of a woman’s calling and our witness to the world and that it is a high and holy calling to be a wife and a mother.
We need to become cheerleaders again for women who choose the mission of motherhood, the mission of marriage as a means of glorying God. (end of quote)
I hope I didn't 'vent' too much...but sometimes it's just good to be reminded that being a stay-at-home is okay. My girls are already talking about their 'future'...one wants to be a nurse (I am not going to discourage her) but if she chooses to be a stay-at-home wife/mommy...then I'll be thrilled! I am not looking for our girls to earn a Master's degree and devote their life to a career at the expense of their marriage and family...I think our society has lost focus of what is important! Do you believe that this issue could be part of the reason for the rise in the divorce rate?
I think I'll copy the lesson from Revive Our Hearts and post it on my frig as a constant reminder...I am sure I'll have days ahead when this is what I'll need to be reminded of!!!!
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