A Woman’s Greatest Calling
The old saying goes that a woman’s work is never done. In our culture today, she is expected to take care of the home, raise a family and make money. She is supposed to have the finest things money can buy, be connected at the appropriate social outings and serve as a chauffeur to any sporting event that a child wants to attend.
She is expected to be many things, but like Martha of old who was told that Mary chose the best thing, a woman’s greatest calling is often overlooked—the place that she can make the biggest impact in the world is right in her very own home.
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Living In Love
This summer, my wife and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary. It seems hard to believe that it was ten years ago that we were standing in her home church exchanging vows and that the time would fly by this fast!
Ten years and four kids later (fifth on the way!), it seemed like a perfect time to be reading a book on how to make our marriage strong and to live in love, and this book did not disappoint!
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National Single and Unmarried Americans Week
Did you know that it is the National Single and Unmarried American’s Week? Neither did I until I learned it from the New York Times! They believe that it’s a shame that we push people into marriage. Personal experience tells me that people in general don’t seem to have that problem.
The value of marriage is significantly less than it has ever been, and I believe this is for a variety of reasons:
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What Role Does Weight Play In Marriage?
In the Country Song, Hot Mama, Trace Adkins confronts something all marriage relationships go through:
You’re doin’ all you can to get in them old jeans.
You want that body back, you had at seventeen.
Baby, don’t get down; don’t worry ’bout a thing.
‘Cause the way you fill ‘em out, hey, that’s all right with me.
I don’t want the girl you used to be.
An’ if you ain’t noticed, the kids are fast asleep,
- Trace Adkins, Hot Mama Lyrics
We all know that bodies change, they never stay the same. For the wife and mother, this is even more dramatic. It seems that, for nine months, the soon to be mom is putting on weight, and then is expected to lose it all in the first few days after the baby makes its appearance.
Let alone the fact that there’s “sympathy weight” that the man gets, metabolisms going down, less time to get out and work out—it seems only the natural progression that the husband and the wife will put on weight.
But should that effect the relationship, does it?
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Identity Crisis
Why do we expect men and women to be the same? They aren’t. I know, that statement may surprise some of you, but hear me out.
Ever since the mid 1900’s, what we’ve expected of women has changed. She was no longer allowed to think that her life was complete by simply being a woman and raising a family. Now she had to do all that and have a job outside the home.
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Maybe Mom Really Does Want To Stay Home
The feminist movement of the past few decades has made a crusade of trying to make the sexes equal in every way—telling women that they could have it all. They advocate having high power jobs, breaking the glass ceiling, and making as much money as the men around them.
But what if those women don’t want to have it all?
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Courting: The Only Way To Find a Mate
On November 19, Katy Case entered into a courtship relationship with a young man, with the intent that she would marry him. I’m very excited for her, in that she has left one stage of life and is preparing to walk into another.
I believe that part of the way to fix the current erosion of the institution of marriage lies in not only speaking out about those that would change the definition, but helping those that are going to be or are in marriages to respect it as well. To that end, I believe that the courtship movement illustrates a series of good philosophies that any parent should employ to help their children during the transition between child and adult, between single and married.
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