Saturday my dh and I and some of the children went to run errands. We finished up early Saturday afternoon. The rest of the day and evening we spent together as a family just relaxing and enjoying our weekend; our Shabbat..
Sunday we had home fellowship and lunch after. We then came home and I got busy cleaning my room. Once that was done I headed to the library to get our unit study books. We begin our unit study on Greece and Rome today.
After I was done there I came home and got busy cleaning the office and then onto printing out the children's school work and making up their vocabulary sheets. It was then family reading time and devotion/prayer time. Somewhere in there I ate supper..:)
After the children were in bed I came across the Joy Behar show where she was discussing the quiverfull movement. And mind you it was not done in a good light. There was a quiverfull woman on there who has 8 children: Rachel Scott and another who wrote a book about the qf movement who is not qf herself and did not shed it in a good light either. Then another lady Vicky..?? who was qf; is now divorced and blames her oldest dd's attempted suicide on being qf..
It was just deplorable. :( It angered me and saddened me..:( Of course it is uneducated women only who choose to have many children or as they made it sound are forced to bear child after child by our abusive husbands who demand we submit to their every whim and desire!
There is a documentary called Born to Breed coming out this month about the qf movement. The very name itself is demeaning!
Joy Behar said Patriarchy doesn't work but Matriarchy does..
Submitting to our dh's is abuse. What educated smart woman would choose to submit to a man?? What could we all possibly be thinking?? (Do you hear the sarcasm dripping here??)
No one is forcing me to have babies. I actually want my children. I enjoy being pg and hope to have many more! I love staying at home with my children, homeschooling them and sowing into their lives.
What would I have to show at the end of my life if I had a big fancy career? What is more valuable then my children? Will I regret not working and advancing my own selfish desires when I am at the end of my time on earth? Will I wish I had nicer cars and a bigger house? Will I look back with regret that I didn't acquire more things?
I think not!
Scripture tells us:
19Do not [a]gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.
20But [b]gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.- Matthew 6: 19-21
I guess what I have decided is that trying to make the world understand something that is completely foreign to them is pointless. It's as scripture says;
"Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.- Matt. 7:6
But let me say to all the naysayers out there...
I am a happy fulfilled women. I love what I do. I love my life as a mama and wife! I love my dh who is a loving, kind man. I am not out looking for happiness but find that right here in my home. I love seeing the smiles of my little ones. Listening to the hopes and deams of my olders. I love watching my babies take those first steps and hearing those first words! I love watching my oldest blossom as she grows into a G-dly young woman! I love teaching my children to read and then watching as they begin devouring wonderful literature that expands their minds and opens up awesome worlds to them they didn't know before! I love watching things click in their minds as they finally grasp that math concept.
Being pg brings me much joy! I don't have to become a feminist to truly embrace my womanhood. Pregnancy does that just fine! When am I more fully woman then when I am carrying a new life? What brings a woman more joy then feeling those first kicks and knowing another child will be entering the world? And what shows more the love between a man and woman then bearing and raising children in a home filled with the Father's love??
It may seem crazy to love and serve this L-rd I do! It may seem like nonsense to those who don't believe. But there is nothing in this life that brings more fulfillment and joy then serving and loving this L-rd, the King of Kings and L-rd of L-rds! You can search the whole world over and never find a a love like this! So many are seeking and looking when what they seek is in following the L-rd Yeshua. Living your life according to His Word. Living as the world does only brings emptiness...
Mat 11:28 Come unto me, all [ye] that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen (Ephesians 3:16-21).
And one more thing..
I am not part of a movement..I am following G-d's word the best I can to the best of my ability!
