Library store

We had less than an hour during piano lessons. I really didn't have any errands to run other than going to the grocery store and Starbucks after we picked up Joel & Sarah. I decided to head towards the Santee library and visit their Friends of the Santee Library bookstore. Outside we found some Mary Kate & Ashley videos (the girls have NO idea who they are), Flipper, and some other kid videos for $.50.

Inside we headed to the children's section and My Side of the Mountain for $.25. I'll pass that on to one of the boys in our class who might want a copy. Addis, Abi and John each picked out books from the shelves. I found a book on Helen Keller that would make good reading for the younger class and a book on slavery told from some slaves perspective.

I browsed the Religion section and found a family devotional book and two copies of The Christian Family by Larry Christenson for $.50 each. Goldmine! I already have a copy so I knew what treasures lay between the covers.

Browsing through it today I found this on the role of wives.

In a Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall tells how her late husband tended to put women on a pedestal. She quotes the following from one of his sermons: "Modern girls argue that they have to earn an income, in order to establish a home, which would be impossible on their husband's income. That is sometimes the case, but it must always be viewed as a regrettable necessity, never as the normal or natural thing for a wife to have to do. The average woman, if she gives her full time to her home, her husband, her children...If she tries to understand her husband's work...to curb his egotism while, at the same time, building up his self-esteem, to kill his masculine conceit while encouraging all his hopes, to establish around the family a circle of true friends... If she provides in the home a proper atmosphere of culture, of love of music, of beautiful furniture and of a garden...If she can do all this, she will be engaged in a life work that will demand every ounce of her strength, every bit of her patience, every talent God has given her, the utmost sacrifice of her love. It will demand everything she has and more. And she will find that for which she was created. She will know that she is carrying out the plan of God. She will be a partner with the Sovereign Ruler of the universe."

All I can add is, Amen!