Housewife?

Having been blessed by the Lord with the blessing of the womb, my wife and dear children have left for Taipei for the delivery of the the third blessing. Every arrangement is under His divine headship and all thing works together for good for those who love Him.

Since then, I have to do everything of the household chores myself. I started off with cleaning the store room and rearranging things in the bed room and kitchen. Now I have to wash my clothes and make my own breakfast. A temporary switch to a "bachelor's life?" Indeed, it has been a wonderful experience positively speaking, though the I missed my family.

This incident reminds me of my need for more exercise in my character and living. I have been under strict diet with the help of my wife, and now I am to take care of my eating myself, a real test when none can keep guard. This is also her deep concern that I might be out of diet control.

In her absence I have learned to appreciate many things she had been doing for me. So wonderful a wife, and now the Lord is working on me, training me to do the same things my wife used to do. Oh stepping into my wife's shoe as a "housewife?"

Though psychologically I am not emotional at such temporary displacement, nor physically I feel aloof to the goodness of technology that makes the world just a click away, yet spiritually it does matter as my wife always balanced me in every matter. This too is the Lord's arrangement.

Marriage life is a great blessing in disguise; a real-life moulding of an earthen vessel to become vessel of precious stone to contain God as the golden nature and essence to become golden man. And as a part of the process of this moulding, one has to sometimes function as a housewife in outward work in diligence. Praise the Lord for this experience of a housewife!