What is the sphere of woman?

"What is the sphere of woman? Home. The social circle. 
What is her mission? To mold character, --to fashion herself and others after the model character of Christ.

What are her chief instruments for the accomplishment of her great work? The affections. Gentleness, sweetness, loveliness, and purity are the elements of her "power".

Her place is not on life's' great battlefields. Man belongs there. It is for him to go forth armed for its conflicts and struggles to do fierce battle with the host of evils that throng our earth. But woman must abide in the peaceful sanctuaries of home, and walk in the noiseless vales of private life.

There she must dwell, beside the secret springs of public virtue.

There she must smile upon the father, the brother, the husband, when, returning like warriors from the fight, exhausted and covered with the dust of strife, they need to be refreshed by sweet waters drawn from affections spring, and cheered to renewed struggles by the music of her voice.

There she must rear the Christian patriot, and statesman, the self-denying philanthropist, and the obedient citizen.

There, in a word she must form the character of the world, and determine the destiny of her race! How awful is her mission! What dread responsibility attaches to her work!

Surely she is not degraded by filling such a sphere. nor would she be elevated, if , forsaking it, she should go forth into the highway of society and jostle with her brothers for the offices and honors of public life. Fame she might occasionally gain, but it would be at the price of her womanly influence." ~Dan Wise (1857) 
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'Never Alone' by Lady Antebellum (Youtube)

                                 I heard this song the other day. It is wonderful! :D

         Lyrics:
     
            May the angels protect you, trouble neglect you
            And heaven accept you when it's time to go home
            May you always have plenty, the glass never empty
            And know in your belly, you're never alone

May your tears come from laughing, you find friends worth having
As every year passes, they mean more than gold
May you win and stay humble, smile more than grumble
And know when you stumble, you're never alone

Never alone, never alone
I'll be in every beat of your heart when you face the unknown
Wherever you fly this isn't goodbye
My love will follow you, stay with you, baby, you're never alone

Well, I have to be honest as much as I wanted
I'm not gonna promise that cold winds won't blow
So when hard times have found you and your fears surround you
Wrap my love around you, you're never alone

Never alone, never alone
I'll be in every beat of your heart when you face the unknown
Wherever you fly this isn't goodbye
My love will follow you, stay with you, baby, you're never alone

May the angels protect you, trouble neglect you
And heaven accept you when it's time to go home
So when hard times have found you and your fears surround you
Wrap my love around you, you're never alone

Never alone, never alone
I'll be in every beat of your heart when you face the unknown
Wherever you fly, this isn't goodbye
My love will follow you, stay with you, baby, you're never alone
My love will follow you, stay with you, baby, you're never alone

Friendship Bread and Pineapple

Hey y'all!!
So my one friend gave me a starter for Friendship Bread (more like cake/pound cake). It was fun, every ten days you do some baking...But then I had nobody to give the starters to that I got from my original one..
So I ended up baking lots of loaves, (Chocolate chip) and freezing some loaves. I am now baking more loaves (French Vanilla Pecan) and am going to freeze them as well.

I am thinking about doing strawberry or apple next time...This should be FUN! :D I also am going to do some Pistachio ones as well.
 I have five starters now!  I am going to freeze three, keep one, and the other one I found a home for! Yay!
 Thankfully I do like baking, so it isn't that much of a chore for me. ;-)

Reminds me of  Proverbs 31:27~"She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness."  That is so true! There can't be idleness when you make food.

I just took a picture of them baking.

Oh, the joys of baking/cooking...The delightful smell it makes in the kitchen! :)

God has greatly blessed me (and many other women) giving me these wonderful skills, to be a homemaker!

We finally bought a pineapple, I haven't had it fresh in a long time. It is so flavorful!
I am going to take a picture of it. ... Okay, here is one for y'all!

It is 10:48 p.m. here, so I should be going...to read the Bible, sing the Psalms, and pray with my family. :D


God bless you all and have a blessed nights sleep and rest of the week.

"I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the Lord sustained me."~Psalm 3:5

"The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." ~Numbers 6:24-26


Cheers!

"Be fruitful, and multiply"

  This video brings me much joy. I don't care for some of the pictures in it, but other than that it is a great video. :)

Hopeful expectations for my future! But then again, I don't know God's plan, maybe I'll only have two...I don't know, but I will forever keep Genesis 1:28 on my mind, "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply..."
That is God's command to us; may we not do anything to hinder pregnancy. 
Yes, this includes Birth Control and "family planning". 
The Earth is NOT over-populated, so don't try that one with me.

I really appreciate taking care of babies, helping children do school, helping mothers out with whatever they need done, talking with mothers about their children, ways they educate them and the different ways they  "bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord"~Ephesians 6:4, so I can learn from them.


I hope you enjoy this video as much as I have. :D 


~Blessings!