HappyHomemaker says:

March 6, 2017 at 7:26 am

For other women out there on the fence about this, I want to share my experience. It was hard for me to submit, I am a very hard-headed, need to be in control person. I know best, so there is no point in trying to tell me differently. I can run my life better than anyone else and I know what is best for me.—– This is how I thought and felt. As I have said many times, especially on this blog, I read Created to be his helpmate, and it actually made me mad, but it stirred something deep in my soul, something that I KNEW was right, but was too stubborn to admit.

I began reading with a better attitude and then the book actually made me happy and proud. That probably doesn’t make any sense, but it did. It made me proud that God chose me to be a helpmeet. So, I began submitting to my husband and things started to get better. Then I realized I needed to submit Joyfully, trusting him, and not second-guessing him. Boy, things really turned around then.

For a long time, I submitted because I was supposed to, it is only when I realized I needed to submit joyfully and without reservation, without wondering if by submitting to this decision, things would turn out bad that things really got so much better. Now, I trust my husband even more. It has taught me that he does have my best interests at heart and in his decisions. Yes, there are times I wish he would do things differently, but when that happens, I just have to stop the negative thinking and trust.

My favorite thing in Created to be his helpmate is when she talks about being your husband’s personal holy spirit. That’s not my job, that is God’s job and I just have to remember that if it is something that needs to be changed (as opposed to something I want changed, there is a big difference), then God will do the convicting. Often times, later when I look back on a situation, I realize how right my husband was and that I was emotional about it because, well for whatever reason (I guess I just tend to be more emotional).

St. Thomas More wrote to his daughter Margaret, who he called Meg. He is imprisoned in the infamous Tower of London where he is about to be executed.

“God’s grace has strengthened me until now and made me content to lose goods, land, and life as well, rather than to swear against my conscience. … I shall … with good hope commit myself wholly to him. …In good faith, Meg … my own good daughter, do not let your mind be troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very sure that whatever that be, however bad it may seem, it shall indeed be the best.”

St. Thomas More, pray for us 🙏🏼

Yes

The time has come....

Fathers, be honest.

Who cooks better? Your wife or your daughter?

I will go first.

Papa secretly admires my cooking more. (I jest)

This is an awesome book so far if you're considering home schooling.

This is Georgina Ward, Countess of Dudley, taken in 1902. Although not every woman back then was descended from royalty, they still had the responsibility of dressing modestly and being a role model for others. A lady, regardless of her social class, was called to do the following:

— To be of a gentle, yet religious and upright nature. God fearing yet obedient.

— Condemnation of bad morality; expected to know the rights and wrongs of social and personal etiquette, in regards to things such as dining, home, and even manners in conversations.

— Hair was to be kept tidy and neat, likewise with your appearance. You were to dress as the social class you belonged to.
Examples of this would be the wife of a tradesman would wear a more modest apparel than the wife of a businessman. Both of them are still to look neat and proper, except in circumstances such as parties or balls.

— Slow to judgement, quick to forgiveness. No envying or hatred of other women or pettified remarks. Sisterhood was considered sacred and important. A woman who could not get along with other woman was often remarked as someone who had the traits of a Suffragette or Spinster.

— Modesty in speech and words. Never speaking of private parts, body motions, or things that happened in the household.

These are of course, not all of them. Women were held to a very high standard back then that our grandparents would had considered normal (in which, it very much is), but because of what most women have been taught, achieving such behavior is a challenge.

It is a shame that a lot of women are not like this today, but it is not to say that a reformation of the character of a lady may not be made. There is always hope. You just have to search. If you do not find, learn! Teach your daughters, and if not your daughters, your wives, before they have the misfortune of learning elsewhere.

🇺🇸⚡️- A year ago today, Roe V. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court.

"Now, while we deplore hasty, improvident, ill-considered marriages, and hold that their consequences are very sad, there is a very supreme kind of selfishness in this over-cautiousness to marry which is not delightful to contemplate....the fear lest self should be inconvenienced or deprived in the very slightest degree; and all this does not tend to the highest development of human nature, but rather the reverse, since the spirit of self-denial and self-sacrifice is one of the loveliest attributes of human character."

- Annie S. Swan, Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making, 1894

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If you're a man or woman I strongly recommend reading this blog:

https://finerfeminity.com/

If you're a woman it can help you very much with understanding and bettering yourself. If you're a man, single or not, it may give a little hope in a world where it seems not many women are pursuing the beauty entailed in their content.

It's like reading the female saints, they had such great love and insight - for men it is necessary to realise their worth, even if there aren't too many in the making. I wouldn't say I'm anything like St Joseph, after all. He was very quiet and humble.