The children began to cry in the adjoining room, frightened by the wrath of their mother.
Megan kicked the dryer three times, leaving a lump. ” It’s the last drop!”She cried. ? Can anything else go wrong?I can’t stand all these problems!?
Her husband’s face appeared at the door. Are you crazy? Stop this! Don’t break things anymore?
Megan looked at Peter, momentarily tempted to kick him too. Then the adrenaline abandoned her and she gave up the fight.
? But I’m very stressed!Why does something great always happen here when I have a deadline to meet?I need to finish these finances tonight. All my day was packed by meetings, can you clean up here?
Peter’s face was haunted. ” I think you forgot that my item should be delivered in the morning. “
Megan began to say bitter things, but he slept and killed himself. Did the house smell like burning, clothes? They had been collected in the service area were beyond any hope of being reused; no doubt one of the children needed help with homework and both had little time.
“Well, obviously I’m not a superwoman,” she finally says. ” I must have had 40 years to abandon this illusion. I can’t have everything I want. I can’t do everything. I don’t appreciate anything. I’m just an irritated, tired woman with a three-kilometre to-do list.
He had a little smile, trying to calm his complaint
Peter sighed. So let’s stop trying. I’m tired of the to-do list and I miss my funny wife.
? What do you mean??
“We’re just going to live in a simpler way. Look, kids don’t need our attention anymore. And, uh, so is the house, why do we go crazy?We’ll stop doing the same. Let’s try to keep living, a salary. Let’s at least think about it, okay?
Peter took his wife’s hand and said, “And are we going to leave this smelly room?”
It’s been a few months, but this crazy idea has taken root. Megan found work to do his homework in the contract business, then left his business. When the children were told that Megan was leaving work full-time, the children were startled with joy. . Megan was a little surprised by her enthusiasm.
At first, he wondered how he would occupy his days; he quickly set a schedule, assigning cleaning tasks on different days; he thought he would have plenty of time to make scrapbooks and other sloppy hobbies, but soon realized that caring for and feeding four people took their time. Now that she was home, did he have time to do the important things that never stood out from the other urgent ones?Prepare meals for sick neighbors, organize a Bible study, visit an old woman in your church. even had time to be a funny wife again. Romantic dating no longer had to consist of going to a store to buy items that needed repair. In fact, did you find out you really liked having your weekends back?Saturday to fix things, with two small bodies trapped in the back seats of the car all day.
One day, his five-year-old son entered the room and hugged his mother’s waist: “Mom, I love you now. “
“Now, ” answered Megan, smiling
? Now I do. I love you now because you’re so much happier and that makes me happier. He squeezed his waist and ran to the basement.
Megan began to cry, a mixture of guilt and joy. The children were so young; she didn’t think they’d noticed.
A few years later, Megan had the opportunity to bear her testimony in a Sunday school class for newlyweds, in her speech she invited young couples to renew their reflection on the house from the Point of View of the Bible:
You know, I grew up thinking that taking care of the house wasn’t a problem, I didn’t like these tasks, so I thought I could succeed in hiring someone who could do anything. At one point, I had a private housekeeper and a cook was too busy to clean or cook. And it worked for a while. We needed a lot of juggling, but in my opinion it was worth it.
But when the stress level got too high, I really had to rethink my decisions carefully. Did I live the life that God brought me in His Word?
It took me a while to discover the importance of home care from a biblical point of view and I discovered that taking care of the house is not a matter of things, nor of household chores, is more than just how you take care of your personal life. Is this what Titus 2 says?It’s not about staying home, isolating yourself and having good well-being. decorated and tidy house. I can understand why people criticize that.
But does being at home involve all the practical management?Buy food, make a quote, keep the gutters clean, make sure the heating system works, also that everyone goes to the doctor, has the right medication, that everyone eats and has clean clothes. But being at home also means offering hospitality, caring for neighbors, helping as a babysitter for other children, preparing food for someone, welcoming people from other countries or churches. It’s about people. Taking care of the house is not a matter of physical space; but it has to do with the people who come and go from this place.
But I’ll be honest. There are times when I miss work, there are two things I specifically miss: one: you can go out for lunch or have a coffee just because you want to take a break; and the other: is it easy to talk to other people?long, uninterrupted conversations. One day I’ll be able to get back to my career, but for now I wouldn’t trade our quiet hours with the family for anything!