“We, as women, think of ourselves as mothers, teachers, nurses and so on, but God says that we are builders. We usually relegate this role to the men, but we are building with something far greater than brick and timber.”
By Nancy Campbell, The Power of Motherhood
I have to admit it…when I read this quote I laughed…not because it’s particularly “funny,” but because have learned over the years a thing or two about building…
The love of my life hung out in a place called Lee Hall at Clemson University…
It was where the “building science” guys took many of their classes. I came to fall in love and marry a builder. He is the builder at our house. He does all the fixing and I told him the other night as he disassembled the vacuum (to unclog a host of curious objects that yours truly had apparently run over) that without his services, this place would FALL APART!
He is the builder…
But I am too.
Now, I’ve been known to get a nail in with the bottom of my shoe..I’m obviously not the one you would want to contract for a project…but I’m building lives…beginning with foundations.
We are in this together, but our roles are unique.
G.K. Chesterton once noted;
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse, it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”
That’s what I
‘m called to do. Begin building at the foundation. Everyday I build, as a wife and mother and teacher, I build lives,
BUT…
I’m also a brick layer, (laying morals and faith bit by bit to young lives, the lessons that are often in hidden in the daily details that being at home allows me see up CLOSE.)
I’m a sheet rock hanger ( Daily, I’m putting up sturdy familial walls, that the pressure of the outside world can’t shake, despite how hard they may try. )
I’m a wiz with a hammer or a shoe:) (hammering values and traditions that will last a lifetime)
but my tool of choice would have to be the……
a drill (a PINK one if you please!) (It’s in drilling over and over those morals and lessons that I find myself constantly drilling. It’s what our faith demands; a total commitment and sacrifice, and that those who HAVE much, MUCH is expected…)
My hope is that when it’s all said and done and I do my eternal “walk through” that I’ll hear God, the Master Builder, say “well done good and faithful servant.”
I’ll proudly display my tool belt…
I am a builder, and I’m working for the Lord!
