…A Careful Woman
A careful woman I ought to be:
A little girl follows me;
I do not dare to go a stray
For fear she’ll go the self-same way.
I cannot once escape her eyes;
What’re she sees me do,
she tries
Like me, she says,
she’s going to be,
The little girl who follows me.
She thinks that I am good and fine,
Believes in every word of mine;
The bad in me she must not see,
The little girl who follows me.
I must remember as I go,
Through summer’s sun and winter’s snow,
I am building for the years to be,
For a little girl follows me.
-Author Unknown
This poem speaks volumes in its short lines. Have you mothers of girls ever thought about how our actions will effect the way that our daughters view the job of motherhood, homemaker, and wife. If we complain about our work or waste time on the phone or the computer what example is that setting? If all our daughters hear us speak of is how hard and unrewarding, and never ending this job is, will they want to do it? Through what they see in our heart, our words, and our actions will they want to embrace this calling for them? The last thing any of us would do would be to jump head long into a job that we had only heard and seen negative things about.
I am praying and striving and focusing on being positive about my calling of a keeper at home. I am putting a smile on my face and joy in my heart that I have been blessed by God to serve within these walls, the people that I love most. I want my girls to grow up and to view motherhood, homemaking and wifehood as journeys and callings of great blessing.
How are your actions today shaping your daughter’s opinion of this calling? Are we teaching them that this is a job that is worth doing? Or is all they see a momma that begrudgingling does her “work” and finds no joy or satisfaction in her job? If you don’t want your daughter to grow up dreading this life, we must stop the cycle now and show them that when we work at this job with the strength of our Lord, it a job of highest calling.
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