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Have confidence in making your home. Everything about it develops organically from what it means to be a woman. We’ve been taught to denigrate, if not despise, the desire, ability, and yes, duty to do it, that is uniquely ours, and a gift to the world.
In its nuptial meaning, her body is the place where a woman receives a man in the marital embrace, making it a kind of home for him, the return for which he longs. The baby grows within her womb, a home for its little vulnerable body. When she receives the baby into her arms, she feeds him from that very body, and her arms are the baby’s home.
The development of the children takes place where they are safe and loved: the home. Without a woman in the home, it grows cold. With her there, the children learn the vital nature of this place where their father too finds rest and renewal. Those words in the Bible, “a man leaves his mother and father and cleaves to his wife” strike deep with the poignant necessity of the children learning enough from the love of their parents to go forth and make their own homes. This is God’s original plan for making the whole world into a home.
The making of the home and being in it, as this life-giving place, is a calling each woman makes her own and accomplishes freely, in her own way.
It’s her perfection and hers alone, but in union with her husband and his unique vision too. No one else can do it. Even her husband depends on her to put the home’s heart into it, something he cannot do.
The world is longing for just this, that only a woman can make — and be: a home.
Be happy at home! As with everything here at the SFH, the best thing is for you to take my ideas, which come from my experience of escaping feminism to enjoy the gift of 47 years of marriage, seven children, and more than a score of grandchildren, and apply them to your situation with discernment, prudence, and confidence — and a sense of humor!
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Thank you. Beautifully said.