Every day I look forward to receiving the brief summary Nancy Leigh DeMoss' daily radio program from Revive Our Hearts. I am posting today's interview because I think it may be helpful for someone; maybe that someone is you. For years, yes, years, this subject has left me intimidated and feeling less than, well, womanly, because I didn't feel I measured up in this area.
The plain truth is I didn't even want to explore this area of me. But God is good and gracious and knows: there was and is within me a deep desire to keep my home clean, orderly, well-managed, and display my distinct touch. I am not scared anymore. I am no longer intimidated. Largely because of the most important women in my life: Mom, and the divine Sisterhood Posse. God has not called me to be Martha Stewart -- but I've learned much from her and I admire her. God has called me to be me and to become all that I can be in Him. That should keep me busy for as many days as I continue to draw breath. Thanks, Mom, for making our house a home. Thanks, dear sisters, for your consistent display of gracious hospitality and sense of personal style. You are each so much fun!
Series: Home-making Is Not a Dirty Word: An Interview with Dr. Pat Ennis and Dr. Lisa Tatlock
Monday, July 28 2008
Monday, July 28 2008
Leslie Basham: If you want to learn a skill, you have to practice, right? Have you ever considered obeying God’s Word as practice? Here’s Pat Ennis.
Dr. Pat Ennis: God’s Word doesn’t offer a cafeteria plan for obedience—that if you tend to have the aptitude for it, then you do it. He tells us, “These are some specific things that please Me.” And that is going to mean that sometimes we have to practice. We’re going to fall, and we need to pick ourselves up with His strength and keep moving on, so that we do become proficient.
Leslie: This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss. It’s Monday, July 28.
An important part of our mission here at Revive Our Hearts is helping women experience the fullness of God’s purpose for our lives. And, Nancy, this week’s programs are no exception.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss: This week we want to talk about one aspect of biblical womanhood that, for some of our listeners, is going to sound like we’re talking about something very old-fashioned. In fact, let me use a word that maybe you haven’t heard for a while. It’s the term homemaking: the making of a home. God’s call to us as women—whether married or single—is, in different senses, to be homemakers. It’s such an important part of His mission and His vision for our lives.
The first part of this week, to help us with that subject, we’re going to be talking with two women who have co-authored a couple of books that help us understand God’s perspective on this subject of homemaking.
Dr. Pat Ennis and Dr. Lisa Tatlock both teach at The Master’s College, which you may be familiar with, in southern California. Pat and Lisa have also co-authored two books, the first called Becoming a Woman Who Pleases God and the second Designing a Lifestyle That Pleases God.
Pat and Lisa, thank you so much for joining us on Revive Our Hearts.
Dr. Lisa Tatlock: Thank you for having us.
Pat: We are privileged to be here. Thank you for inviting us.
Nancy: It’s been fun for me to get to know you two women and to sense your heart and read what you’ve written about a subject that, for a lot of women, is not even on their radar screen: this whole subject of homemaking. You are so into this subject! Pat, you actually started the Home Economics department at The Master’s College. Lisa, you teach in the Home Economics department. So this is something that you women really have a heart for.
Now, when I say Home Ec.—Home Economics—to some people that sounds like we’re talking about dinosaurs or something that isn’t even heard of anymore. Pat, how did you even get interested in this subject of Home Economics?
Pat: Well, I actually started as a seventh grader always wanting to be a teacher. And my seventh-grade Home Ec. teacher really lit the fire so that I wanted to be a Home Economics teacher. All of my college counselors tried to discourage that, because I was too academically prepared to just "waste my time" in being a Home Ec. major.
But I found, as I went to college and I studied the discipline, that it was food science; it was chemistry; it was biology that backed up all of the concepts that made the house a home.
I actually learned homemaking from my mother. My mother was a gracious southern woman who learned many things from practical experience. She had an opportunity to practice her skills many years before I was brought into the family.
I actually learned homemaking from my mother. My mother was a gracious southern woman who learned many things from practical experience. She had an opportunity to practice her skills many years before I was brought into the family.
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