I never have to struggle, as some modern women do, with wondering if I am wasting my life by being “just a homemaker.” I proudly wear the badge, and as my oldest children draw near adulthood I am just beginning to see some of the fruit of my efforts as a homeschooling, stay-at-home mom (although, as my dear husband often says, we will have done our job well when we see our grandchildren walking with God.) I have to admit that I have relished the remarks of one friend who had an Ivy League education who told this college dropout something to the effect that my mental acumen was the match of hers any day or another friend who was a pediatrician who would sometimes ask for advice on childrearing. Yet my sense of worth truly comes from the daily joys of being a keeper at home and helpmeet to my husband. Time and again, through both victories and despairs, the foundation of the home my husband and I have established (with God as the builder) has been a refuge to us and Lord willing will be so for many generations to come. Proverbs 14:1 says, “A wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down with her hands.”

Which leads me to recommend two articles by people who are much more articulate than I:

First, this from Peggy Noonan, onetime presidential speechwriter for George Bush the Elder.

Next, check out this Reality Check article by Gary North. He explains how fleeting are money, fame and power, then clues you in to what you can do to get real immortality (hint: I have a lot of them). Click here if you want to learn how to subscribe to Reality Check.

Dr. James Dobson has finally seen the light and called for California parents to remove their children from the public schools. As my husband is fond of saying, especially when disgusted by the filth in a “public” toilet or the bums in a “public” park: “There’s a reason they call it public.”

Dr. Laura Schlessinger also jumped on the bandwagon, realizing things were too far gone to save, when the California state legislature mandated proseletyzing young minds with the pro-sodomite message of the agressive homosexual lobby in this state.

I have often been distressed by Dr. Dobson’s support of the government education system. The system is not only designed to be hostile to biblical Christianity and the precept that parents are responsible to teach their children God’s law, but it is unconstitutional to have compulsory education at the expense of the taxpayers. Not only that, but the attrition rate of Christian children in government schools is appalling! I’m pleased that a man of Dobson’s influence has so publicly stated his enlightened views, although he ought to call for Christian parents to remove their children from all government schools. The other states are only a hop, skip and a jump behind California with the perverse agenda of the militant weirdos being pushed wherever public money is spent. Just read the minutes from the last meeting of the National Education Association meeting.

Visit the website of the Alliance for the Separation of School and State, and you can jump on the bandwagon, too.

We are joyfully anticipating the birth of a new covenant child to be added to our household this summer. Even though this will be our tenth child, we are filled with awe at God’s blessing to us of this baby. Our thoughts are daily filled with the upcoming celebration of the birth.

This child will be a covenant child, born into a household with believing parents who love and serve the Lord and whose siblings have been sanctified because of the faith of their parents. All of our children have been baptized into this covenant as a sign of their being set apart to God. As they grow, we teach them God’s law and about the sacrifice of Christ for their sins; they are responsible before God to respond in faith as He grants them the faith to respond to Him. Steve and I are one of the primary means God uses to bring them to this place of personal repentance.

Here is a good article explaining how baptism of infants is a sign of God’s covenant within a believing household, replacing the Old Testament sign of circumcision. Circumcision was bloody, but blood is no longer required to be shed since Christ shed His blood for us. Now we are washed by that blood and baptism is a symbol both of that washing and of our own death and resurrection in Christ.