Well done
Ann V. has a very insightful post on women and paid work, disagreeing with Linda Hirshman's recent comments, and sharing how different a Biblical perspective on rewards and pay is then our current cultural view.
Ann V. says:
Ann V. says:
How am I valuable if there is no payment for what I do? For a world that revolves on an axis of GNP and capital, to work without pay seems to parallel with slavery, voiceless impotence, and destitute poverty.Oh, and if you can stomach it, you can read Linda's latest article here. I don't think she is just on a mission to ridicule stay-at-home moms, I get the impression she wants to mock anyone who seeks to follow God's Word. She is treading on dangerous grounds.
But if, however, one has a different worldview, a worldview that revolves on an axis of eternity and soul-worth, to work without pay is an impossiblity. For all work is paid work, for God is a faithful rewarder of persons.
When one looks beyond the flakes of the dust-of-this-life floating in the light shaft to peer up along the shaft of light, up to the glory of Him, one realizes that working for God frees us to work without pay…for God Himself is our reward. One’s definition of self becomes inextricably bound up in a work worthy of the response “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
posted by Crystal Paine at 1:56 PM
4 Comments:
Arg! When will women like this stop the attacks!? Some woman work. Some women stay home. I have done both. I thought that the whole point of feminism was to give women more choices in the first place! Whether a woman chooses to stay at home or not is no one's business but her own and that of her family. What ever happened to sisterhood? We should all seek to uplift and understand each other. No more woman to woman guilt for the choices a woman makes!
Ms. Hirshman has made my prayer list! Only God can change her heart.
I am a little speechless. I am a single, working woman, and I am appalled by Ms. Hirschman's article! I would stay home in a heart beat, were I married with or without children.
Reading that article, made me even more grateful for your blog and others like it. I thank God for people of like mind that help edify me in my life and roles of a woman.
Donna is right, Ms. Hirshman needs our prayers.
Take care,
Leigh
All I can say is "who can find a virtuous woman, for her price is far above rubies!"
God's word is our standard, regardless of what this woman and others may write and promote. God is not swayed by these attacks on the sanctity of our homes! May we also find our strength to keep on in our mission of wife and mother, not from the world, but from God's Word.
It is easy to resent this woman for her words. I fight those feelings as I type this, but in fact she deserves our pity and prayers for she does not know what she is saying! She does not realize where her thoughts lead and the results that that thinking has had on our society and will have on future generations of children. Children who will grow up without mothers who love them and care for them according to biblical standards!
May God grant us the grace to stand firm in our convictions and by our lives show the world that our choice to stay home, love our husbands and raise our children will produce the best payment in God's timing!
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