Homemaker By Choice!

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow. - Martin Luther (Passionate Housewives Desperate for God page 23)

I always dreaded the question "What do you do?" because once I told people that I was not going to school nor was I working anywhere I got the puzzled look. People often assume that since if you don't go to college or get a good career that your going to be a nothing in society, and I am perfectly fine to be a nothing in society all that matters is that I am obeying my Lord and doing what His Word tells me to do. As Dorthy Patterson well put it:

Of course, much of the world would agree that being a housekeeper is acceptable as long as you are not caring for your own home; treating men with attentive devotion would also be right as long as the man is the boss in the office and not your husband; caring for children would even be deemed heroic service for which presidential awards could be given as long as the children are someone else's and not your own. (Passionate Housewives Desperate for God page 25)

What a double standard this world has! Girls are encouraged to get out there and do things like go to prom, hang out with your boyfriend, but how is that going to do any good for us in the long run? What did you benefit from going to prom? How has hanging with your boyfriend helped you? Most likely those things are in the past and you don't even remember who you went to prom with, what you wore, what songs they played... how has that shaped you and molded you for your future? Personally I would rather learn something that will be useful in the long run than see how many boys I can date (which adds baggage to your marriage).
Feminists want to take away the right to choose to stay at home Simone de Beauvoir a French Feminist said:

No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have the choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one (Passionate Housewives Desperate for God page 27)

And American critic and memoirist  Vivian Gornick said:

Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that. (Passionate Housewives Desperate for God page 27)

So basically they are taking the "choice" away from us and giving us one choice... theirs! I don't want the world raising my children I want to be able to teach them in my own home! I want to be able to freely teach them about the Lord and the skills that they will need when they become Wifes/Mothers or Husband/Fathers! I don't want them to not know how to cook a meal or change a diaper I want them to be able to be suitable helpmeets for their Husbands and godly leaders for their wifes! In public school you learn about drugs, alcohol, foul language, sexting, suicide, shootings, sex scandals, along with a bunch of other things I do not want my children exposed to! My husband and I are excited to be able to teach our children, and be allowed to put God into every subject taught! "But how will your children ever learn to socialize if they are home schooled?!?" you may ask, well the answer to that is quite simple...When in your life will you ever again be in a room with 40+ people who are your same age? never! All the home schooled family's and Children I have met have been the sweetest most personable kids to talk to! They grow up around people that are older than them, and learn how to socialize with all age groups and be well mannered. I will leave you with two quotes from John Piper and a short clip from Voddie Baucham:

Mothers, don’t let anyone ever dupe you into thinking there’s anything ignoble or disgraceful about remaining at home and raising your family. Don’t buy the lie that you’re repressed if you’re a worker in the home instead of in the world’s workplace. Devoting yourself fully to your role as wife and mother is not repression; it is true liberation. Multitudes of women have bought the world’s lie, put on a suit, picked up a briefcase, dropped their children off for someone else to raise, and gone into the workplace, only to realize after fifteen years that they and their children have a hollow void in their hearts. Many such career women now say they wish they had devoted themselves to motherhood and the home instead.

(Mothers), our daughters will be products of their theology. Their knowledge - or lack of knowledge - of who God is and what He has done for them will show up in every attitude, action, and relationship. Their worldview will be determined by their belief system. We must teach our daughters that their value and identity lie in the fact that they are image-bearers of the God of glory. This will protect them from seeking significance in the inconsequential shallowness of self-fulfillment, personal happiness, materialism, or others’ approval. Our daughters must know the wondrous truth that their overarching purpose in life is God’s glory.

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