No place in her life for self-indulgence; no place for laziness; no place for inactivity, she is full of energy in the duties of the home. She takes great delight in her work- rather than being a laborious and boring chore; it is pleasant and enjoyable.
Toil need not be tedious; it can be a tremendous source of pleasure and satisfaction. In our modern, computerized, electronic, entertainment-saturated society we have almost lost the art of working with our hands. Most women don't delight in making clothes with their hands; they delight in shopping for them instead, and thus adversely affecting the family budget. Instead of learning from their mothers how to sew and knit and crochet and mend, many children are too busy watching television or playing computer games. Unfortunately most mothers do not even know how to do these things and could not teach their children even if they wanted to. Our mothers spend countless hours knitting and crocheting and sewing, but these things are becoming a lost art.
Personal testimony; I always become a bit irritable when I ask my mother to fix or maybe sow something for me, because before she does it, she will boast about how she took agriculture and home economics as subjects in school- as irritable as I may be, it is the necessary truth I need to hear so I can consider instilling first such skills in my daughter before giving her worldly knowledge. Ellen White tells us in the book Adventist Home that the most important education in a child’s life begins at home, where they learn how to care for the home and tend for themselves.
The virtuous woman does these things without complaint or begrudging, she finds joy in this labour. Why? Because she loves the people for whom she does it. It is her love that drives her. Her hands are active after the pleasure of her heart. It is not hard for her to do these things; it is not an unwilling thing because she loves the people she serves. She loves her work because she loves her family- its value is connected to who she does it for. Because of such deep devotion to her husband and her children, she willingly denies herself and takes on the most menial of tasks with the greatest amount of pleasure, because she understands that they are an outgrowth of her deep love for those people in her family.
The virtuous woman awakes at the crack of dawn (after being rested well-enough), to prepare for her family to get a good start on the day. She starts of by meditating on prayer because the duties ahead of her require strength and wisdom, and then gets on to plan the rest of the day’s activities. The virtuous woman is diligent, yet flexible and realistic.
Young women today, in many cases, hardly know how to prepare meals, and families eat out frequently or order food that can be brought into the home. How many families take time to sit down at a meal together around the table? Often families don't eat together, don't pray together, don't read together, and as a result don't stay together.
She's entrepreneurial; with the little enterprise she has going. It is wonderful when a woman is enterprising and if she has the time and the inclination and the talents and abilities to do things in the home that can benefit the family. The godly woman gives very careful thought to matters and doesn't do this rashly or on a sudden impulse.
Toil need not be tedious; it can be a tremendous source of pleasure and satisfaction. In our modern, computerized, electronic, entertainment-saturated society we have almost lost the art of working with our hands. Most women don't delight in making clothes with their hands; they delight in shopping for them instead, and thus adversely affecting the family budget. Instead of learning from their mothers how to sew and knit and crochet and mend, many children are too busy watching television or playing computer games. Unfortunately most mothers do not even know how to do these things and could not teach their children even if they wanted to. Our mothers spend countless hours knitting and crocheting and sewing, but these things are becoming a lost art.
Personal testimony; I always become a bit irritable when I ask my mother to fix or maybe sow something for me, because before she does it, she will boast about how she took agriculture and home economics as subjects in school- as irritable as I may be, it is the necessary truth I need to hear so I can consider instilling first such skills in my daughter before giving her worldly knowledge. Ellen White tells us in the book Adventist Home that the most important education in a child’s life begins at home, where they learn how to care for the home and tend for themselves.
The virtuous woman does these things without complaint or begrudging, she finds joy in this labour. Why? Because she loves the people for whom she does it. It is her love that drives her. Her hands are active after the pleasure of her heart. It is not hard for her to do these things; it is not an unwilling thing because she loves the people she serves. She loves her work because she loves her family- its value is connected to who she does it for. Because of such deep devotion to her husband and her children, she willingly denies herself and takes on the most menial of tasks with the greatest amount of pleasure, because she understands that they are an outgrowth of her deep love for those people in her family.
The virtuous woman awakes at the crack of dawn (after being rested well-enough), to prepare for her family to get a good start on the day. She starts of by meditating on prayer because the duties ahead of her require strength and wisdom, and then gets on to plan the rest of the day’s activities. The virtuous woman is diligent, yet flexible and realistic.
Young women today, in many cases, hardly know how to prepare meals, and families eat out frequently or order food that can be brought into the home. How many families take time to sit down at a meal together around the table? Often families don't eat together, don't pray together, don't read together, and as a result don't stay together.
She's entrepreneurial; with the little enterprise she has going. It is wonderful when a woman is enterprising and if she has the time and the inclination and the talents and abilities to do things in the home that can benefit the family. The godly woman gives very careful thought to matters and doesn't do this rashly or on a sudden impulse.
