CC: Our Different Talents

Do we have any?

Well, when it comes to music, none of us is talented about it. We don’t know how to play any kind of musical instruments. Hubby sings though, and I love it every time he sings most especially if he’s drinking some alcohol. haha!!! He gets crazy when he’s drunk. He looks at me while he sings songs he knows I love and he even changes the lyrics to my name. yeehee!!! Most of the time, he translates English songs to Tagalog and reads the lyrics backwards. I just love hubby when he’s drunk. He’s so cute and he never fails to make me laugh. He don’t dance though, except sweet dance where we just sway left and right while hugging tightly. He is also not my DIY man. Though he’s the one who assembles everything, he’s not the kind who likes fixing stuffs. He’s the opposite of his father when it comes to DIYs. But he’s the best in paper works! He files our bills neatly, he takes good care of our travel documents, he writes really good letters and he was my helper in my paper works during college. He’s the office-guy type. Oh, and he has this talent of sleeping while sitting without swaying his head. I envy that. Whenever he sleeps in the car or plane, he’ll just rest his head against the seat and sleep, while I can’t and I really have to rest my head on something that will really support me.

12 July ’10 – After dinner, hubby asked me to listen to the sound quality of the new earphones that come with his iPhone4. We danced while we listen to James Ingram’s music. We particularly like The Day I Fall In Love, I Don’t Have the Heart and Never Gonna Let You Go – it plays every night. This is the kind of dance we love most!

I, on the other hand, don’t see myself as talented. I dance though, but not really good. I was one of our schools dancers back in elementary and high-school, but I know that I am not as good as the others. I remembered, I was always chosen to join our school pageants and dancing is the only talent I can show. I love singing, but it doesn’t like me. I am a bit knowledgable in blog designing (I understand some basic codings), a little about photoshop, and other softwares that interests me, but I am never good at crafts. My hands are not friends with needles, scissors, papers, etc. I can cook and bake, but I cannot make a good cake design.

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The Keeper of the Home

Just yesterday, the same question that I’ve been asking myself and God a couple of times now popped up again while I do some house chores – “God, am I really meant to become a stay-at-home-mom?” I am not complaining, I love being one and I am very lucky to have been given this choice. It’s just that I thought I would be more useful and productive if I work outside.

But in my process of seeking the Lord just this morning as I want to start my day right, I stumbled upon this site called Wholesome Words and got the answer to my question. If you are a stay-at-home-mom, but still wants to work I hope you’ll be enlightened by this too.

I am the keeper of this home.

The position and responsibility of the wife and mother - The keeper of the home (Titus 2:4,5)

The phrase “keepers at home” means a stayer at home, a domestic. She is to be happy at home, making it the nest it ought to be (Prov. 31:10-31). There is no room for a career outside the home. If she is a mother, she has a full-time job at home. Only in cases of dire need should the mother go to work. If there are no children or the children have grown up and left the home, her free time can be used in Christian work proper for women. The desire to have the things of this world is the real reason many wives go to work. Some use the pious excuse that, “if I didn’t work, we wouldn’t be able to tithe.” Better is it that the family should forego tithing rather than send the wife to work. Due to the gravity of this subject I have taken the space to list the many undesirable consequences of wives going out to work:

a. Since she is bringing home part of the income she will want a voice in how it is spent.

b. Children to a babysitter — no discipline.

c. Contact with other men at work — temptation, flirting, unfaithfulness and divorce. It is no accident that the divorce rate has been climbing since World War II when women went to work for the war effort.

d. The husband will soon be expected to help with the housework – after all, it is unfair for him to expect her to work all day and then do all the housework.

e. Meals will be thrown together — leftovers and TV dinners.

f. Physical well-being will suffer — she cannot work all day and clean house all night; she is the “weaker vessel.”

g. Her spiritual life and that of her children will suffer.

h. The added income will lead to worldliness — the things of this world will become more preeminent in the life.

i. In attempting to make it up to the children you will spoil them — you feel guilty about leaving them so you let them do anything they want and you give them anything their little heart desires. This will not compensate for parental neglect nor will it cause them to love you.

j. Her respect for her husband will lessen — she will resent the fact that he couldn’t provide for them. Should she be moved ahead by her employer, she will wonder why he never gets a promotion. Perhaps she will make more money than he does; she begins to chide him, trouble ahead.

k. Children rebel in reaction to the neglect and lack of love. Again it is no accident that teenage and college age rebellion runs parallel with the increase in working wives over the last thirty years.

Click HERE to read The Christian Home Manual.

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Happy Birthday Marz Rubz!!!

She is Mommy Rubz, my dearest kumare whom I am very proud to have.

She’s the toughest woman I know and I adore her the most.

Marz, I wish you all the best in the world.

Happy Happy Birthday!!!

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