Wonderful Mother/Daughter Investment

I have the privilege of spending most of my weekday mornings reading this book aloud with

my young adult daughter Briana.

(She received it for Christmas)

Our discussions have been soooo good since we've started it!

Although we do not have a large family, we wish we did!

 And, we would like for our children to allow God

to choose their family size when they get married

and hopefully have large families themselves.

Although we haven't finished it, I couldn't wait to tell you about this book!

The first portion of the book is about God's plan for wives and mothers

with biblical references and lots of food for thought.

So far I have had lots of conviction while reading it--and expect that I'll have more yet!

This book is not just about how to be organized, etc...(although that's part of it)

 it is about the attitudes of the heart,

and the yielding of ourselves to God's plan.

It's very much worth the investment of time to read it,

and would be helpful for any wife, mother, or daughter.

(Made so much more enjoyable because I share it with my daughter!)

I wish the same for you!

In case you want to know where to order, it is available at Vision Forum.

Blessings!

Blessings of Working in the Home
The sisters from the blog above have a wonderful post that I thought you might like to read! Go check it out!

See I told ya it was fun!

For those readers who doubted my good word about how my daughter learning homemaking skills was fun...feast your eyes on these! :) Need I say more!? I think NOT! LOL Reaping what you sow can be a real good thing if you do it right!

DO AS I SAY!!!...

This year my daughter is doing some intensive homemaking training to prepare for her future. :) Of course, me being a homemaker, (and her mother), I am the principle trainer at present... Honestly, this has not been a chore! It's mostly exciting and fun for me, as I see the joy my daughter has been having while learning and practicing her skills.
Not all of the teaching is cooking, or cleaning...sometimes it's verbal instruction. Things such as...don't panic if you don't have all of the specific ingredients for a recipe, learn to make do and substitute, and then I go on to give her examples (face it ladies, we hardly ever have all the exact ingredients-ya know?) Or, I might say, don't panic if you're in the middle of homeschooling your children and your mother in law calls to say she's 10 min. away and is stopping by--do the 10 Min. tidy before she gets there! (never mind that she's actually had years of practical application in that area! LOL) Hey--I did that on purpose!

So anyway, yesterday I was telling her something like this: You know, we've been concentrating on teaching you skills that you can use for your homemaking...but I want to tell you this...

don't forget that your family comes first. Don't neglect your husband or children to clean the house or decorate etc.... don't push the children that need attention aside to sew, or garden... they are your first priority, your real job. The other things are just to bless them-not replace them...

And then I said OUCH! Hey, who needs to learn here anyway?

Do as I say...Not as I (sometimes) do....

Humbly yours,

Sharri

Raising Godly Daughter Links

Here are some links for Raising Godly Daughters additional info and resources:
Noble Womanhood

Biblical Womanhood

Vision Forum (click on sidebar)
Ladies Against Feminism

Maidens of Worth Joyfully Modest
Titus 2 A Christian Home
Christian Moms of Many Blessings
Bold Christian Living

Ladies of Grace

I hope that some of these links are helpful to you! :)
Blessings!

Raising Our Precious Daughters...the Corner Stones...

"that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace."
Psalm 144:12

For you Mom's out there with daughters...I would like to humbly share something with you...

When I set out to raise my daughter, my thoughts were to give her everything I never had...and so, I began to buy her things, dress her up etc...I wanted her to have the perfect childhood.

This was such a mistake. Thankfully, over time, I yielded myself over to the Lord and His leading, and got a brand new direction--a biblical one.

We had our bumps in the road, but God has been gracious, and has shown us mercy!

In the day and age that we live in, we have to raise our dear daughters with biblical purpose, conviction, and care. The world that we live in wants to turn them into men! Sadly, even the modern day church has let "women's lib" in it's doors!
Now, our family has personally suffered some persecution for choosing to raise our daughter to be a feminine young lady, training to be a keeper at home, under the protection of her father. So, I'm not saying that it is easy to do what is right. (A lot of the persecution we have gotten has been from other Christians).
But we must be committed to raising our daughters according to the Word-not the world.

Here are some thoughts I found when reading about the biblical raising of daughters.

"Daughters unite families as corner stones join walls together, and at the same time they adorn them as polished stones - garnish the structure into which they are builded."
"That our daughters may be as corners stones, etc.. One might perhaps at the first glance have expected that the daughters of a household would be as the graceful ornament of the clustering foliage or the fruit bearing tree, and the sons as the cornerstones upholding the weight and burden of the building, and yet it is the reverse here.
And I think one may read the love and tenderness of the Lord in this apparently casual but intended expression,and that he meant the nations of the earth to know and understand how much of their happiness, their strength,and their security was dependent on the female children of the family." Barton Bouchier

Matthew Henry's Commentary:
It is no less desirable to see our daughters as corner-stones, or corner-pillars, polished after the similitude of a palace, or temple. By daughters families are united and connected, to their mutual strength, as the parts of a building are by the corner-stones; and when they are graceful and beautiful both in body and mind they are then polished after the similitude of a nice and curious structure. When we see our daughters well-established and stayed with wisdom and discretion, as corner-stones are fastened in the building,—when we see them by faith united to Christ, as the Chief Corner-stone, adorned with the graces of God's Spirit, which are the polishing of that which is naturally rough, and become women professing godliness,—when we see them purified and consecrated to God as living temples, we think ourselves happy in them.

Do you see the importance here? These lovely daughters of ours are not mere ornaments of the home. They must be raised to be strong and purposeful!
God wants them to be strong and beautiful, so that they will be useful to their husbands, homes, and the society that they live in.

It has been our experience that when people hear that we are raising our daughter to be a "keeper at home" they immediately think that it is a waste.
What wrong thinking!
In Titus 2:4-5 it tells us what we older women (Moms) are to do...
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

If our daughters are going to be ready to do these things, they must be taught at home. God has ordained this occupation-it's the only one mentioned. And so, it's importance should not be under-estimated, nor under-valued.

Just like we had to teach them good manners, doing their chores, and anything else we felt was a worthwhile accomplishment, we must also purpose to teach them this!

You know that anything worthwhile takes hard work, goal setting, and perseverance...and this is no different.

May God make us wise, give us strength for the task ahead, and lead us in His Way.