The Homemaking-Christian
Dear Christian sisters, we don’t need to spiritualize our work. We don’t need to make the home more glorious – it already is. We don’t need to steal from the church to justify our labors; our labors are already good and necessary. There is no secret sauce that we’re simmering apart from our pagan sisters that makes us special. Let’s take care where we find our motivation and how we speak about our work. If we do that, we can build a community of homemakers generation to generation and watch as the Lord uses that to build His church how and where He wills. The Lord has used many a prayer from many a woman to save children and friends and family. Let’s pray, be in church, and tend our hearths.
The Christian Community and the Homemaker
Community requires practice and effort. It requires people to make meals, open doors, communicate. It requires managing schedules, hosting get-togethers, managing facilities, seeing needs and handling them. Community requires seeing the helpers and thanking them. It requires hugs and conversations. It requires a heart to serve before being served. It requires each of us to guard and garden our hearts for the sake of the friend beside us. Why looky here! Community requires all the things home requires, which means we, the Christian homemakers, have a wonderful witnessing opportunity by simply doing what we do. Ladies, this is what we’re trained, or training, for! We are constantly engaged in educating ourselves, in practicing, in growing our skills and expanding our skills in all these areas.