In modern society, being a homemaker is almost considered to be a shameful thing. But, it's not! Being a homemaker is a wonderful thing!
Being a full-time homemaker began to be devalued in the 1970s, perhaps even earlier. After the feminist movements, a two-income family became a normal and even sometimes expected thing. Now, if a woman wants to be a homemaker, she will sometimes hear that she will be a burden and that she should be working outside of the home even with having small children. But God sees what you are doing as something incredibly valuable.
Proverbs 31:10 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies."
Tit 2:5 KJV -
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Today, I also wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you on homemaking just for some encouragement. Please also see my previous podcasts where I discussed what the Bible says about homemaking as well.
“Home is the true wife’s kingdom. There, first of all places, she must be strong and beautiful. She may touch life outside in many ways, if she can do it without slighting the duties that are hers within her own doors. But if any calls for her service must be declined, they should not be the duties of her home. These are hers, and no other one’s. Very largely does the wife hold in her hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness and the highest good of the hearts that nestle there. The best husband—the truest, the noblest, the gentlest, the richest-hearted—cannot make his home happy if his wife be not, in every reasonable sense, a helpmate to him.
In the last analysis, home happiness depends on the wife. Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. Her hands fashion its beauty. Her heart makes its love. And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, that no woman who has been called to be a wife, and has listened to the call, should consider any price too great to pay, to be the light, the joy, the blessing, the inspiration of a home.
Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a few songs which shall sing themselves into the ears and hearts of men. But the woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.” ~ J.R. Miller.
Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean. J.R. Miller
It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?
Audrey Hepburn
“Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.” C.S. Lewis
“The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. It’s importance is incalculable.”— Katherine Short
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