Written by Kate Singh (with some of my additions, which I believe are biblical in parentheses) The house is empty all week. It just sits there. A $1,700 to $3,000 mortgage. No one uses it really. Everyone works 60-hour weeks to pay for a home they don’t use. They have a yard that has grass, nothing really living and producing. Just water-wasting grass that is another thing to deal with on the weekends. They have dogs that don’t get walked…
“She is to the home keeper, to take care of her husband, to provide for him and for the children, all that they need as they live in that home. Materially, she is to take the resources the husband brings home and translate them into a comfortable and blessed life for her children. She is to take the spiritual things that she knows and learns and to pass them on to her children. She is a keeper at home. God’s…
Written by Genevieve Greenwood It’s funny how life works out sometimes. I had been in the workforce since I was about 12. My first job was babysitting my little cousin full time. Later, fast food, then management, then call centers, and eventually banking. I had a decent job dealing with credit card identity and transactional fraud. My oldest child has autism, Tourette syndrome, and a host of other medical issues. I’ve always dealt with his medical needs personally, and it…
Do you enjoy being home full time? Some young women get bored being home all day, so they find part-time jobs or other ways to fill their days away from home. With all of our modern conveniences, it’s easy to have the time to leave the home and find entertainment elsewhere. Women would rather go out shopping, go to Bible studies, play dates, eat out, and anything but look well to the ways of their household by being keepers at…
Growing up, I always knew I wanted to just be a wife and mother. I never had any career goals even though we were “supposed” to have them. (Aren’t jobs or careers for men so they can provide for their families?) I had every intention of marrying a man who wanted me to have children and be the one home full time with them. I didn’t ever want to be the bread winner of my future family so I was…
Did you know that the NIV doesn’t use the word “keepers at home” in regards to married women’s role? No, they have redefined it as meaning “busy at home.” William Einwechter wrote an incredible article about the evolving quality that this term originally meant to the way it is used today. Many have mocked me for teaching that married woman should be keepers at home but I trust God knows what He meant when He instructed older women to teach…
Since my pituitary is low or non-functioning, I have had to go on hormone replacement therapy. I have been having good results using bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (like finally sleeping a lot better and not nearly as many hot flashes after fifteen years!), so I joined a couple of groups on Facebook that have women taking these types of hormones. The women kept recommending the bookWhat Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by Dr. John Lee. (I highly…
Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands. Proverbs 14:1 (Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible interpretation of this verse with my additions in parenthesis.) Every wise woman buildeth her house,…. Not only by her fruitfulness, as Leah and Rachel built up the house of Israel (by bearing and raising children); but by her good housewifery (keeping their homes clean and tidy), prudent economy (spending their husband’s money carefully); looking well to the…
Over and over again, women use the Proverbs 31 woman to try to convince me that women are allowed to have careers. There is no way this made-up woman in the Bible who represents godliness would leave her children every day for many hours a day for mammon (money). God wants mothers to raise their children. He has made this very clear in His Word. God spoke mostly negatively about money in His Word and positively about children. He loves…
As shared on Our Simple Homestead Last week, a young Amish man named Steven Yoder was killed in a mill accident here in New Wilmington, Pa. Steven left behind a wife named Mary, and five children under the age of 13, and one on the way. I asked my Amish friend Teena what would happen to the family. “How will they financially make it, since the Amish do not carry insurance?” Teena answered, “The church will take care of them.”…