The work is hard, of course, but so are many other professions, and their is a certain amount of flexibility that can’t be found with a 9 to 5 job. Being at home really becomes what you make of it. I think some people are more creative, intense, thoughtful, etc than others – it has absolutely nothing to do with working outside the home or not. I debate outsourcing them so I can focus on my strengths versus doing them and being challenged. So I struggle – hard – with the every day and the ordinary tasks that are not my strengths. Mostly I get to use my gifts at the office and in coming up with new ways to parent and play with my baby girl. It’s a continual challenge to me to improve my keeping of the home.
#Bring it around now ladies good golly plus#
Plus my natural giftedness is just not in cleaning. There’s really only so much creativity one can apply to scrubbing a toilet. My husband has his own every-day-ness that is sometimes in the same chores as me and other times in his own. For me every-day-ness is in attempting to get those darned pots and pans cleaned, toilets scrubbed, and floors vacuumed. This personification of wisdom used so many gifts in so many ways!īut then I have to compare the big-ness of what womanhood can be with the every-day-ness of life on earth. I mean – there’s a ton of different options for using gifts in what she did. Because I’m striking a path that is different from what’s often expected of women within conservative evangelical circles (full-time SAHM and housewife or full-time WOH single woman or, in very conservative circles, the stay-at-home daughter phenomenon) I’ve examined Proverbs 31 a lot and looked at just how BIG the definition of a “woman of valor” is. I work part-time outside of the home, stay home several days a week with my daughter (but I’m her mom 24/7), and am the primary housekeeper for our home. Brené dives deeper into the subject of creativity in her book The Gifts of Imperfection. I’m looking forward to a great discussion in comments. Thanks for making this a safe place for me to think out loud. If wholehearted living requires cultivating creativity, then are you finding an outlet for yours? Are you using your gifts? Do you need to find a way to use them? Those big words–calling, mission, purpose, giftedness–find expression in that role. Listening to Brené, I wonder if some women are gifted in such a way that they use their creativity–I mean really use it–as stay-at-home moms. Help me figure it out.Īnd so many of them feel guilty for wanting this. Many of these women have been stay-at-home moms, and they’ve shared different versions of the same story: I love my kids but I need something else, too. When I heard these words, I couldn’t help but think about the women I’ve sat down with or chatted with or exchanged emails with–just in the past two weeks! They’ve thrown around big words like Calling. To illustrate her point, Brené referenced a CPA-by-day who makes jewelry at night, and sells it on Etsy. It’s the work that’s satisfying, not the money it brings in. This work doesn’t have to pay the bills (though if yours does, that’s awesome). So said Brené Brown in her amazing interview on Oprah as she explained that wholehearted people cultivate creativity.īrené went on to say that wholehearted people also cultivate meaningful work.
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