Joy does not come magically from being at home. Joy comes from what happens in the home.
The first steps I think, in teaching ourselves and our daughters what it means to be a woman, lies in discovering and developing the truth, value and beauty of womanhood, and also manhood. They are distinct, but they complement. The second step is to value the home as a cornerstone of our society. The home is not a hotel, where people come and go. It is a place of productive work for the family members. A place to learn values, to develop interests and gifts. A place of relaxation and rest.
Below are links to a few articles discussing various ideas and premises. Read them please, I would love to hear your thoughts on them. In particular I find very interesting the role of the industrial revolution in the change of lifestyle and home in our western world.
It is not the lie of Feminism which lured women away from the home; the feminists believed the lie of the Industrial Revolution, the lie of the supremacy of the public sphere. If the church will speak to the hearts of women, it must first reconsider the function of the home and find ways for our homes to be places of productive work in an industrialized, modern world. Women need more than how-to housekeeping books to reclaim domesticity. More fundamentally, they need a framework, a vision for what life in the home should look like. Providing this vision is the challenge for the twenty-first-century church.
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