I knew I was going to like this book:
[Josh Harris on one way single women can practice mature femininity]
“Cultivate the attitude that motherhood is a noble and fulfilling calling.
Today many people scorn motherhood and the skills associated with managing a home. In our culture children are viewed as a nuisance, and motherhood is considered a waste of a woman’s talents. A college counselor once told me that the majority of the female students she worked with secretly longed to get married and have kids, but they were too ashamed to admit it. What a tragedy!
Please don’t believe our culture’s lies about motherhood. If God has placed that desire in your heart, don’t be embarrassed about it. The Bible encourages younger women to learn homemaking skills from older women. Learning to keep a home and love a husband and children is part of God’s plan for the complete training of young women (Titus 2:3). Don’t hesitate to learn the practical skills that will one day allow you to serve a family. Search out godly mothers in your local church from whom you can learn.
You can possess biblical femininity without being married or having children. As a single woman, you can express your femininity by practicing hospitality and by caring for and nurturing people in your life. But you can also honor God’s plan for womanhood by agreeing that motherhood is a high and noble calling.” - pg 119-20, Boy Meets Girl
Amen, brother Josh, amen.
‘BH
1 Comment
July 18, 2008 at 11:35 pm
How true! Sadly I have met “older women” in the church who refuse to participate in bible studies/events that emphasize motherhood because they aren’t mothers themselves. They forget that God created/equipt them to be nurturers and that as they interact with children in the church or through their jobs (jobs: another topic for another day!) it is an opportunity to come alongside those of us in the trenches to encourage and edify. Just because a woman might not have practical knowledge doesn’t mean she is without wisdom or insight when it comes to motherhood. This has created a chasm within the church where very few older women are willing or able to disciple the younger without a formal ministry as a catalyst.
Sadder still is the number of younger women that are unteachable. I used to be one such ‘younger woman’. How very important it is to disciple our own daughters (and didn’t Jesus command us to go and ‘make disciples’(not converts)?) In God’s design that’s where everything has it’s beginning, in the home, the institution of the family.
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