Women and men now find it difficult to believe that a life centered around the home can satisfy their needs for personal fulfillment and genuine achievement.
Women have been taught women that a life at home raising babies and taking care of their husbands and children not fulfilling. They needed to get an education and career to find happiness. Housewives were bored and unfulfilled being at home all day. Many women believed this to be true.
Women have left their homes in droves to pursue careers and fulfillment outside the home. Are they any happier? I don't think so. They feel torn between their jobs and their families. This doesn't sound like the fulfillment they were promised.
When we regain connection with all that sustains us, we regain creative spirit. We rediscover the joy that comes with using our hands and our minds in union to nourish, nurture and delight our families.
Since leaving the home, this seems to be the result ~
Millions more compulsively view television, video games, and pornography; play the stock market; overeat; shop for things they don't need, and flee their helplessness and hopelessness in countless other ways. Increasingly the US economy is based on diversions and anesthetizations.
Dr. Micheal Yapko found that in those societies where depression is less prevalent, there is less emphasis on technology and consumerism and greater emphasis on family and community. Our actual needs are so much larger emotionally and so much smaller materially than we have come to describe them in American society.
Teach the young women to be...keepers at home.
Titus 2:5
Teach the young women to be...keepers at home.
Titus 2:5
Carla · 656 weeks ago
The Lord is always using you to speak to my heart! I needed this reminder today!
Thank you!
Blessings,
Carla <><
thefrugalwed 20p · 656 weeks ago
I have found though, that if I look at my job with an eternal perspective, I find it more fulfilling. When clients are being mean to me, I just think, I need to treat them kindly and with respect and then pray for them. Or when I feel overwhelmed and feel like giving up, I stop and pray for God to help me through it.
I think that in the same way it is easy to dwell on the mundane tasks of a job outside of the home, sometimes homemakers can feel like there is no fulfillment in their work. But when we put Christ at the center of all that we do, whether it be working outside the home or being a keeper of the home, we will find true fulfillment and we will see that in everything we do, we can glorify and serve God.
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Rona · 656 weeks ago
My true love is keeping house and now I can finally pursue it.
edenhills 46p · 652 weeks ago
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debra · 652 weeks ago
I am very glad that women are free to do either ( IF they are financially capable to choose! :)
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littlebitquirky 53p · 652 weeks ago
I have to be honest though...I was miserable being a SAHM. It just wasn't right for me. Now, I work while my daughter is in school. I took a big hit in pay by taking off the time I did. I'm so much happier now though. Yes, balancing work with home like is stressful, but I'm happier, not sadder.
What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another person. It's up to each woman to decide what works for her family's needs.
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Jenny Matlock · 650 weeks ago
It makes me so happy.
Children need to be nurtured.
Sometimes it doesn't work to stay at home...and I get that...but I agree that the house and home always needs to be the nucleus for the family.
Thank you for another splendidly thoughtful post.
A+
Jennifer Dunn · 522 weeks ago