The feminism movement is rapidly spreading throughout the work place. Ideas that women are better, stronger, harder workers than men are being fed to the young, impressionable minds of the next generation. Women are being empowered and leading in the workforce. I dare say that the ratio of men to women in leadership across the nation is being threatened if not already overthrown. More than ever before, women are the breadwinners in their household. Over 40% of moms are now the sole or primary source of income in U.S. households. Women are now the primary or co-money maker in nearly two-thirds of American families and working married women bring home 44% of their family’s income. (Resourcefulmanager.com/women-workplace-statistics/)
This is now. However, before you disregard everything I have to say, I am not condemning women ever working. Many of the women I look up to most go to work to help provide for their family; some are left without a husband to provide for them so they have taken up the responsibility to care financially for themselves and their children, others their husbands are present and hard-working, but they work to help support their husband. Some of these women run their own business, many work from home, and others clock in and out at a physical workplace every day. I don’t believe that is wrong for them to do. I am there myself. I work. I worked myself through college and though I am now graduated, my husband is a student and it was necessary for me to work to help support him through finishing college. We are blessed to be able to work at the same job together which has been such a help! Oh yeah, I am also his “boss”. It Is right for us to work and work hard. Proverbs 31 writes of a diligent, hard worker, and speaks of her using the work of her hands to sell. It is not wrong until it is at the expense of who God created me to be. I was made to first and foremost to be a servant of Christ; to love Him and serve Him with everything in me. My relationship with Him comes first. I have been denied jobs many times over due to a standard of dress, my decision to be at church instead of work during service times, or a priority of ministry over “preferred working hours”. To me that’s no sacrifice, that’s my reasonable service. Secondly, I am a wife. I was created to be his help-meet and a keeper at home. When I cease to be able to fulfill that responsibility because of a job, I am failing to do what I was made to do. Some women can find a graceful balance of it all, others not so much. Whatever I do should not come at the expense of my God or may family. This is where most elimination processes stop. Do we need to go further? If there was a job I enjoyed where I was treated well and that allowed me to be fully committed to my responsibilities and joys of serving Him, my family, and others, I’d go for it. But those are very difficult to find. Typically, something has to bend, and it is isn’t the job. This is what caused me to consider, I wasn’t made to be in the workforce… and that’s okay. It is okay. It really is. I wasn’t called to serve chicken, I was called to serve people. I was made to love, help, and care for my husband and that’s a far greater priority in my life than any sales goal ever could be… and that’s completely okay. I can work with a brighter hope when I bring what I was made to do into what I am doing; when I make my workplace my mission-field; when I am reminded I am being a help to my husband by working; when I use it as a greater opportunity to show Christ’s love to people. Some situations are not ideal. I know of some who are experiencing some extremely oppressive employers, unbelievably rude and unkind customers, manipulative coworkers – just not good places. That’s very draining. It can control your thoughts and emotions. It can be taxing on your health and your family. First of all, let me encourage you not to feel trapped and allow their treatment of you to tear you down. Second, I believe the Lord has always led me to difficult situations to help grow me. Allow it to soften your heart and be open to learning from the situations. Third, be a light for others. Most of those scenarios are not isolated to you alone, they most likely affect all of your coworkers as well. Be that hope and light for them. You have the Lord to rely on… most of them don’t. They’ll quickly begin to wonder how you can be so happy in a not-so-happy situation. Maybe you weren’t made to be a boss lady (or be at your current place of employment) – and that’s okay.
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4/10/2019 04:59:09 pm
Great blog post
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