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Prairiehomemaker (PH for short) is a place for conservative Christian women to meet, learn, share and grow. This month (November, 2008) we celebrated our 6th year. Many things have changed, but the core idea remains the same. The goal of this site is and always has been to teach women how to focus on God and living lives of Faith in HIM while learning to be frugal and family oriented. It is a shame to me how these lessons have been forgotten from the days of our mothers and grandmothers. It used to be these talents were admired, indeed expected, from ladies. Now days many women come to adulthood unable to cook, clean properly or sew a straight seam. Some ladies are pummeled and shamed for staying at home, taking care of these very things for their Beloveds and children. Flipping the coin, we find still other women, feeling doomed and inadequate for working outside their homes, even though their Beloveds make such a request of them. Some sniff and declare these women have “abandoned the family” or decided their career was more important. While PH is not a place where one who chooses to abandon her family would feel, or even should feel comfortable, we do understand that not all career women have done this. PH has room both for the working woman and the woman who has the advantage of staying at home. Either is welcome, as long as doing what God calls them to do is the focus of her life. PH is not a place for women who seek the role of a man in her life. God created woman as a separate part of humanity. We are not men, we can not become men. We can not replace the role God created for men with ourselves. This does not mean we are not intelligent, or capable. It simply means we have our jobs and men have theirs. We seek to find the work God has for us to do, and do it well, not concerning ourselves with what He calls others to do. PH is based on the idea that God created one Faith, and by it all can be saved. That Faith is based on the idea that Christ came to save us from our sins. ANYONE in any Bible based church can cling to that promise. The religion matters not. Religion is man made and fallible, the Bible is not. [Eph. 4:4-6 (King James Version) 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.] As women we are called to put our families first. Ahead of our vain desires, ahead even of our own needs. If this means that working is part of your life, follow God’s lead. If you are one who is blessed to be home, you also must follow God’s lead. Staying home entails real work, guiding young children in Faith, making a haven of your home. Women who work must also do these things. PH is a place for both to help each other, not judging one better or worse, simply remembering that in God we are all sisters, and we need each other. Welcome sisters. Let us work together to bring glory to our Father, and our nation back to its place in His service.
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