The Foolishness of Housewifery

For consider your calling, brothers (sisters): not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.   I Corinthians 1:26 (ESV)

 According to the world’s standards, the above verse describes me. Wise? Professional women consider my career choice of being a housewife and full-time mom to be an unwise, dull-minded way of life. Powerful? Chauffeuring children, swishing toilets, cooking– hopefully not at the same time – is hardly a position of power. Noble birth? My heritage comes from a lowly band of Scottish pirates. Now that I’m menopausal I’ve stooped to an even lower low by calling my sister and telling her that I know why some animals eat their young. Am I the only one out there who, after washing and folding the same pair of underwear so many times it could compete for a Swiss cheese look alike, wonders if the perceived movers and shakers in the modern world could be right!

OH MY!
Is she about to vomit?
How much of
THAT
have you
cleaned up
over the years?????

I see you smiling. You know what I mean. But, now that I am well on my way to an empty nest I wouldn’t trade those m a n y l o n g y e a r s – 27 and who’s counting – for all of the gold in Fort Knox. I have a treasure chest of memories that I love to pull out and pour over. My “fab five” now range from ages 15 to 27. When they aren’t making me want to pull my hair out they are so downright funny that they can make me forget why I got so aggravated with them in the first place. We laugh together, a lot. And when I step back and see who they are as adults, not perfect like their mother of course, but full of promise, I’m amazed that the Lord has let me be a part of who they are becoming. I have four children who are devoted to the Lord and the fifth one will be. Amen! I can’t take any credit; it’s all been God’s grace and mercy. I bless His name that He…

…chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption. Therefore, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:27-31 (ESV) NHJ