I just finished reading Philemon in my study Bible. The study notes reminded that Paul sent greetings to/from those who hosted the early Christian church in their homes, like Philemon. And this made me think of my Mom, "the hostess with this mostest".
My Mom was a homemaker. She influenced me greatly. She hosted church prayer meetings in our home, and joked that she was "the hostess with the mostest".
She influenced me greatly. She taught skills like cooking and cleaning and caring for others. She served Dad and US breakfast, lunch and dinner. She helped us be ready. She lived her values as a Christian. She was a HOMEmaker.
As the American family disintegrates, as the call goes out for workers to work, as houses and apartments and huts are no longer homes, I feel compelled to give a shout out to the homemakers.
So, in memory of my Mom, I shout
HOMEMAKERS ARE IMPORTANT!
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=philemon%201&version=NIV
QNirmanakaya ago
Thank you. I left my comfy high level job to raise my children for 20 years, just now trying to get back to the workforce. And I will never regret it.
comprametu ago
beautiful!
Mammy ago
Upvoat and Amen.
Banky1974 ago
Hell yes they are. My mom was a homemaker and raised me, my two brothers and my sister basically on her own because my dad was off working most of the time. I'm a better person today because of her constant presence at home.
A good friend of mine at work has 7 children and his wife is a stay at home mom. He has a hobby farm and I frequently visit to shoot guns on his range. Those kids (age range from 16 to 2) are the sweetest, most respectful and helpful kids you'll ever meet. And that's because they have two good parents and one of them stays at home to raise them.
No woman (or man) should ever feel badly about choosing to be a homemaker. Nothing more honorable in life than raising children to be good, responsible adults.
sheepdoggie ago
Amen Patriot, they want to destroy our history and our family.
Juneysunshine ago
The world’s families will need generational healing when “The Storm”is done. I pray for good wives for my sons. They are my greatest gift to the world. As women, God gave us the incredible power of being Mother’s, the cabal would like us to believe we are powerless and weak
MudPuddlePie ago
It's funny to me that the God haters try to tear down biblical living...as their lives disintegrate and they end up unhappy, sick and alone. They just can't see the connection...God's values/way of life is not restrictive or "oppressive" but for our health, happiness and wellbeing.
(blueletterbible.com is also a great study tool site.)
Q20191776 ago
Thanks!
okhosting ago
100% agreed
Winred ago
Homemakers helped build and maintain the mortality of our world.Anyone can see that the role diminished at the same time that morality diminished. Not a coincidence
Q20191776 ago
Spellfag here. Once your correct the "mortality" to "morality" you'll get an Upvoat from me.
Winred ago
Thank you
Q20191776 ago
You get two upvoats, as I updated your thanks too.
KyJane ago
They certainly are. So often anymore they are treated like they are of little value because they don't work outside the home. It used to be that not many women worked outside the home because they didn't need to. That was the man's job while the women stayed home to care for the kids, cook, clean and make the house a HOME. The man could come home from work to a nice hot meal and a clean house without having to hire someone else to do it and this way normally worked out well for everyone. Now it seems most families can't make it on only one person's paycheck. They either can't survive on one or they just aren't satisfied with what they can buy on one check because they want THINGS more. I believe the powers that be wanted to double the taxpayer money they could play with and steal so they manipulated things so both would have to work outside the home and pay taxes!
TippyHome ago
They did. And it worked. College was pushed, but not so much vocations. Plumbers, electricians, contractors, cabinet makers, loggers, lawnscapers- all very lucrative careers, but pushed aside for “college” and sitting in your butt looking at a stupid computer screen.
Gr8_again ago
One of the weapons of the left is to destroy traditional families. If they can get into women's heads and make them feel inadequate for being homemakers, they do. They put daytime tv shows on that focus entirely on the Marxist lust of inequality. The gullible viewers then begin to resent their husbands and their children, based on subliminal grooming impeded in these shows such as the Opra Winfrey show, The View, and many of the shows, where the woman tries to make the man look foolish while trying to make the woman more intelligent than the man. Tearing down families by creating negativity within the home and within the marriage is the goal of the left. Strong families with traditional values are a hindrance to them.
TippyHome ago
Saul Alinsky, Howard Zinn and others saw a way to push their agenda on naive, kind and uninformed parents and workers. And they did it slowly over years and years since it all starting in 1946 after WW2.
skatyg ago
If you get a chance to listen to Dr Laura on 111 Triumph on sirius/XM 2-5pm CST, she is an advocate of stay at home moms. Take a look at most of the adults who grew up in daycare and you'll clearly see the effect of the absence of a mother in the home.
TippyHome ago
My mom was a homemaker, until she worked full time after my dad died at 45. I was 12, but the foundation she established was important. We lived Christian principles but after dad was gone, we had a hard time finding a church home. However, my “career”
has included working in churches/church organizations for 30 years. Mom steeled herself from the pariahs in the business world when she continued to run our family business after dad died. She was a wonderful homemaker, and continued to make sure that my brother and I always had breakfast, lunch, dinner(together) and any thing we did at school, she was there. Friends teased me later on about how she was always at school for us, but I believe some of it was admiration. I don’t know now how she did all she did.
Diggernicks ago
Kek
MudPuddlePie ago
That's why Christians study the original language and meaning. Your assumption is incorrect. Btw, how's your God hating life working out for ya?
4freedomsring ago
Our culture pushes the college degree. I was a very smart girl. Went to college, got a professional job in the medical field. In my heart, never wanted to leave my babies to go to work. THANkS to my HUSBAND, why supported my decision, I went part time. Eventually quit to be full time homemaker. Never been happier. It was Gods plan for me all along to be a HOMEMAKER, and I do resent the push by society for girls to find a “ good job” other than consider homemaking as a profession.
summerstormAK ago
I think being "prepared" for a good job is smart insurance in case, God forbid, you have to raise your children alone and provide for them at the same time. But I agree - no career can match the satisfaction of enjoying your adult children and grandchildren and being proud of the adults they've become. Homemaking is an important job.
TippyHome ago
Summer, the worst did happen to our family. Mom was a homemaker, but had been a postmistress before she married and had a family. Dad was a very driven and hard working man. Worked and bought a business. While mom was at home, he trained her in bookkeeping and business management. At 45, he passed. Me, 12, brother 14,(my brother found him where he passed from heart problems(brought on from WW2 Battle of the Bulge extreme cold and killing conditions))so, Mom stepped in and ran the business until she retired from losing her eyesight. Our town always “talked” and said she would fail in 6 months. She had it for 25 years. So, yes, absolutely always have something in your back pocket to be able to keep your family going, if the marriage doesn’t stay together, there is a debilitating illness or a death. Always, always, always know something that you can do and always have a plan B.
KyJane ago
I say again, it's because they (govt pigs) want to double the taxpayer money that they steer it this way. We are like cattle being steered in the direction they want. TV movies, ads, news... it's their agenda and sadly people are brainwashed to buy into it.
hang_em_high ago
They NEEDED to increase taxes to keep the federal reserve scam alive. Now they need more bodies again so they push illegal immigration.
TippyHome ago
Absolutely true. I wish there were some way to get people to understand this.
TippyHome ago
The push was started after WW2 by rothschilds and co., Congress, too to work all of us to the bone for the taxes. You see, a whole segment of society couldn’t be allowed not to pay their “dues” to the government. Why not? Women had been compelled to build aircraft carriers, planes, submarines so the push continued. Yes, in lower school girls are pushed to college, but the working world is just a pipe dream for many. And this dream of corporate success ends up pushing women to ending their marriages for their work and the children are left standing there
saying, “what about me?” Congress made it hard to survive in America without two salaries, but daggone it all, inflation was allowed to happen, and all the prices went up to engulf the “second” salary. Then advertising pushed how everyone should live-expensively crazy weddings/receptions, McMansions, expensive cars, debt debt debt. If we could just be allowed to live just a normal life, I think so many would be happier and the kids would be, too.
Memanon ago
Thank you for giving us younger women a hope, and reassuring us that wanting a more traditional home is perfectly ok!
dingdong44 ago
Thanks for doing your part to make the world better homemakers.
Ismokecutters ago
I as a man didn’t appreciate how hard it was to be a homemaker I used to go to work from 7.30am til 5pm get home the tea would be ready the kids were already sorted my clothes would be ironed the house smelt good it was clean and tidy, I had my few jobs like rubbish bins and mowing the lawn and such anyway 11 years ago my wife became ill eventually to the point I had to give up work anyway I can tell u the house has gone to shit I struggle to get the kids sorted, anyway it’s a shit show I’d rather be at work any day of the week it’s so hard looking after the home and kids and clothes and shopping everything, I just think god built women for this task I’m not trying to be sexist maybe some men could handle it better than me but I just give a loud applause 👏 to all the homemakers everywhere it’s damn harder than it looks your wife just makes it look easy also just to add she always looked great when I come home from work.
MudPuddlePie ago
So sorry about your wife's illness. Hope she gets well soon.
It's not sexist, God made us men and women suited for our tasks.
Hang in there...
Modernminuteman ago
The importance of a homemaker cannot be overstated. They are vital to strong family unit in my opinion. Done right it is one of the hardest jobs there is but immensely rewarding.
MrMysterious ago
It's very important. The more I study the issues in society the more it circles around to morally and psychologically damaging women and through that the family. Women always used to be the good examples in the house but the powers that be have worked very hard to destroy as many of them as possible through media and social pressure these past several decades.
FreedBy45 ago
I gave up a very lucrative corporate job in my early 30's to stay home & raise our children. The BEST decision of my life. Fortunately, my husband was supportive of this. In fact, he's the one who brought up the idea of me staying home. So lucky to be with him!
comprametu ago
Similar experience.
MudPuddlePie ago
Nice...
joeneesima ago
Ditto. Homeschooled them too.
Awesome husband too - high five girl!
BEST thing I ever did with my life.
Titus Ch 2:3-5
3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
obedient to their own husbands --> the husband is the HEAD of the household, the wife is under his lead. He has a HUGE responsibility to lead his family in Christ.
Gr8_again ago
Yes. You are so right. I love and respect my dear husband of almost 31 years. I do sort of feel sorry though for the misguided feminazis who try to rip apart women whom they are jealous of, for gracefully displaying our femininity, while they desperately struggle to try to shed theirs and put in masculinity instead.
Ismokecutters ago
Don’t shout this too loudly, the feminazis will have a field day with you, you gave it up on ur own free will, no u didn’t ur husband brought it up, how lucky u are to have him hahahahaha, honestly hope u are a genuine poster but there’s quite a lot in ur statement that the feminists will rip you apart for.
Q20191776 ago
I don't think I'm a bot. This is actually from my life experiences.
FreedBy45 ago
You present a false narrative. My husband didn't tell me to stay home - or order me to. He simply let me know he was okay with being the sole financial support of the family if I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.
The feminists can think whatever they want - I don't care. They are a huge reason this country is in the mess we are in. Supporting abortion & voting for extreme liberal positions because apparently it makes them "feel good" to give away other people's money. And voting solely for HRC because she's a woman - that's downright ignorance and/or insanity.
Feminists typically aren't feminine at all. I have no wish to associate with them.
MudPuddlePie ago
Feminazzzzies....are toothless and don't scare anybody.
hang_em_high ago
Last time I gave a flying fuck what feminists think is, well.. never.
Witsend ago
Who cares what they think? Nothing is more rewarding than being there for your child’s early years, and you don’t get a second chance.
Witsend ago
As long as I get my sandwich
dundundunnnnn ago
No one cares.
The_Impaler ago
this should be told to your friends and your girlfriend [if you are a man]
Even more important if you are girl, let it be known that a lot lot of girls thinks feminism has gone astray protecting only lbgtf45ip part of woman population.
My girlfriend her mother and aunts, everybody around me thinks that. Progressive nuts are rare and the ones who believe can be easily persuaded in some gentle and nice manner