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Chapter Seven
THE
'~VERAGE,
EVERYDAY
HOUSEWIFE"–
NO HIGHER
CALLING!
A
YOUNG HOMEMAKER
summarized
the problem many
women face when they choose
to
stay home and be
housewives. She wrote: "I am continually asked
if
I
work. When I reply that no, I don't have a job
to
which I go
each morning, a look of incredulity almost always spreads
across the person's face, and then comes that inevitable
question,
'What
on earth do you
do
all day?' "
Some people apparently think that homemakers often sit
around all day watching television, never bothering to get
dressed or to get their hair out of curlers.
What about
it?
Does any woman have cause
to
be
ashamed
if
she is "just a housewife"?
Character the Purpose
God did not create women as some sort of after–
thought-a last minute "Whoops! I almost forgot." The
creation of women was an integral part of God's plan.
Mankind was not complete with the creation of the male
only (Gen. 2:18). So God made Eve, from the rib of
Adam, to be his perfect companion and complete spiri–
tual equal.
To make the human family, which pictures God's family,
complete-to provide it with proper depth and
to
create the
total environment-God established family life. Male and