Family is a beautiful institution; the love, the caring, the sharing, the fighting and quarreling - all these make family wonderful. This is why even people who are somehow alienated from their blood families try to find solace by making family outside. In the beginning even our creator saw that it was not good for anyone to be alone, hence the physical creation of woman and the command to multiply.
So what am I getting at with this family thing? If you agree with me that family is beautiful, I wonder if you would be as pained as I am at the breakdown of family life. From my perspective as a homemaker, family life is breaking down because of the extinction of the stay-at-home homemaker. Traditionally, the woman is the homemaker but with changing times you find male homemakers or househusbands now. As I wrote in an earlier post, you've got to have thick skin to tell anyone or fill out a form stating your occupation as housewife or househusband. Why should that be the case? What is so shameful about being a homemaker?
There is no cause for shame really. In fact as a home maker you should be really proud of yourself. I am! I must confess it's taken time to get there though. You see taking time to take care of your children is very important. These are nations in the making, so you need to take deliberate steps at building the nations under your watch.
The destruction of future nations or generations is what is at stake when we do not take care of our families and this is why I believe there is an attack on family life as God ordained. Staying at home is just for a season, it will not last forever. There is time for everything, at time to stay at home and a time to build a career.
I will be talking about stepping out in a few posts from now, but what I can say is that you will know when the time is right.
Bye for now
