The cherry blossom is beeeautiful in Korea right now :)
How beautiful is God's creation!
My thoughts on women working:
“Marriage is a vocation. It is a task to which you are called. If it is a task, it means you work at it. It is not something which happens. You hear the call, you answer, you accept the task, you enter into it willingly and eagerly, you commit yourself to its disciplines and responsibilities and limitations and privileges and joys.”
Elizabeth Elliot, in her book Let Me Be A Woman, describes marriage as a vocation. I believe too, that the role of a woman as a wife and mother is a significant and challenging calling, to which she should endeavor to succeed in. The issue of a woman working becomes controversial as she enters the stage of marriage and undertakes the responsibility of a family.
Is a wife to stay at home and support her husband? Is it wrong for a mother to work outside the home when she has children? The answer is, though it may sound cliché, that each woman should seek God’s will for her own life. God calls each one of us to various and unique styles, vocations, and purposes of life.
My mother was nearly always a working mom: she was always busy, but she never took her role as a wife and a mother carelessly. As a woman with a great love for her family, her desire was not to work outside of home, but to be a full-time wife and mother. However, she worked because God called her to. God had amazing ministries He wanted to do through her, and when God called her, she obeyed.
My mother worked outside our home and also carried her role as a mother and wife wisely. Other Godly women I know stay at home to support her family as a loving mother and wife. Is either of them better than the other? No. There is no typical answer for a ‘perfect Christian woman.’
However, for every Christian married woman, her priority is her family. As Elizabeth Elliot says in her book, “if a woman wants her career to have priority she will do better to stay single, for the simple scriptural reason that she was made to adapt to a man (made ‘for him’) if she has a man.” As a woman enters her stage of marriage, her first role is to be a good wife and a mother. As God calls her to carry other roles in her life, He will give her the wisdom to balance between the two important vocations, for His own glory.
Elizabeth Elliot, in her book Let Me Be A Woman, describes marriage as a vocation. I believe too, that the role of a woman as a wife and mother is a significant and challenging calling, to which she should endeavor to succeed in. The issue of a woman working becomes controversial as she enters the stage of marriage and undertakes the responsibility of a family.
Is a wife to stay at home and support her husband? Is it wrong for a mother to work outside the home when she has children? The answer is, though it may sound cliché, that each woman should seek God’s will for her own life. God calls each one of us to various and unique styles, vocations, and purposes of life.
My mother was nearly always a working mom: she was always busy, but she never took her role as a wife and a mother carelessly. As a woman with a great love for her family, her desire was not to work outside of home, but to be a full-time wife and mother. However, she worked because God called her to. God had amazing ministries He wanted to do through her, and when God called her, she obeyed.
My mother worked outside our home and also carried her role as a mother and wife wisely. Other Godly women I know stay at home to support her family as a loving mother and wife. Is either of them better than the other? No. There is no typical answer for a ‘perfect Christian woman.’
However, for every Christian married woman, her priority is her family. As Elizabeth Elliot says in her book, “if a woman wants her career to have priority she will do better to stay single, for the simple scriptural reason that she was made to adapt to a man (made ‘for him’) if she has a man.” As a woman enters her stage of marriage, her first role is to be a good wife and a mother. As God calls her to carry other roles in her life, He will give her the wisdom to balance between the two important vocations, for His own glory.
