Imagine our surprise this morning. After our coffee we decided to water the fern while Momma Bird was away. This is what we found~ four adorable little birds with their mouths opened wide~ they are so sweet!
We watched as Momma bird returned home to feed her hungry babies. What an amazing Creator we have.
Watching this Mrs. Momma Bird has been perfect timing for a speaking engagement I have this weekend. The theme is Feather Your Nest.
We are still enjoying our "staycation" as a blogger friend called it today.
Feather Your Nest
Today a homemaker committed to nesting and mothering is often seen as inferior to a career-oriented woman. If she teaches other people's children she is given the title of teacher; if she teachers her own children she is just a mother. If she chooses wall paper, paint and can turn a home into a work of art she is an interior decorator; if she decorates her own home she is called a homemaker. If she professionally cares for the sick and mends bumps and bruises she is called a nurse; if she tends to the physical needs of her own she is only doing her job as a mother. Mothers employ the skills of many professions but usually receive very little recognition.
I love my role as a wife and mother. I love to feather my nest. My family members are the most important people I entertain. They deserve to use my best dishes and be served my finest cooking. They are the reason I feather my nest!
The changing role of women in our society has tended to submerge the nesting instinct. Today's female doesn't much operate like Grandma did! Grandma cooked, cleaned and even ironed! She made meals that did not come from a box. She was there when someone needed her. She was happy and never felt like less of a person.
Who is rearing our next generation of children? I fear putting our children in institutions as babies and children are causing so many problems today. I understand that sometimes it cannot not be avoided. God must fill the gap! I just wonder if we could do without all that society thinks we must have. Children are the victims of a woman's misplaced instinct.
Can a woman have it all? I say yes just not at the same time. To work outside the home or not to work is not the issue here. It is more~ Are we feathering our nest? I have mostly worked inside the home~ homeschooling~ in-home part time jobs but I have been so guilty of being too busy.
Can a woman have it all? I say yes just not at the same time. To work outside the home or not to work is not the issue here. It is more~ Are we feathering our nest? I have mostly worked inside the home~ homeschooling~ in-home part time jobs but I have been so guilty of being too busy.
Titus 2:3-4
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober,to love their husbands, to love their children,
I am beginning to see that the things that really matter take place not in the boardrooms but in the kitchens of the world.-Gary Sledge
Today is a perfect day to feather your nest!
0 comments:
Post a Comment