As a follow-up to my earlier posts “Homeschool Smug” and “Death Knell of a Small Town Baptist Church“ I would like to touch on the subject of daughters.
Be it known from the “get go” that I have no daughters, and therefore many would say that I have no qualifications or business giving any kind of advise in raising them. Now I will concede, I have no practical, hands on experience in raising daughters, only with sons. However, as the father of two fine and godly sons, I am keenly interested in how you are raising your daughters as are they. I contend that the godly principals of childrearing found within the pages of scripture apply to daughters as well as sons. I would also contend that there is an abundance of instruction found in God’ Word, for raising daughters, just as there is for sons. And it’s there for all to study whether one has daughters or not. All we need do is read. I also believe that patterns and principals are as relevant as specific wording. God is not the author of confusion.
All that being said, I do not intend to lob a barrage of scriptures your way telling you how to raise your girls. What I am going to do is relate to you as I did in those earlier posts some of what my own eyes have witnessed. Specifically, I am speaking of the very sad and alarming trend we have witnessed at almost all of the homeschool graduations we have attended for the last 10 years or so. The trend I speak of has to do with the plans and ambitions of the overwhelming majority of graduating girls. Time and time again I have watched in horror as one young woman after another stands up to proclaim that their life’s ambitions have little or nothing to do with being a stay at home wife and mother. Very seldom do I hear one of these girls state that she intends to homeschool her children. As a matter of fact, I very seldom hear of a desire to be married or even have children! What I do hear is that they plan to go to college – and usually anywhere but the hometown community college. Their aims are much higher and farther away. Yes, far from the life in which they were raised. They speak of achievement and careers and success. Does this alarm anyone other than myself? It reminds me of a line in the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” when George Bailey tells his (at that time unknown) future wife, Mary – “Mary, I’m going to shake off the dust of this crummy little town…and see the world.” And in another line he states “I’m not going to get married…ever!” It is the age old tale of Prodigal Sons and Daughters. When a child can’t wait to get out from under parental authority and skip town in order to experience all the world has to offer – then I say that something is dreadfully wrong. Wrong with the child’s thinking to be sure, but we all know that it goes much deeper than that. Prodigals are usually a product of their environment and may have valid reasons (at least to them) that they flee. I cannot help but believe that the problem doesn’t really lie with the daughters, but with the “proud parents” sitting in the audience who have trained up their daughters in the way they think they should go, so that when they are old, perhaps they will part with it and settle down and get married.- well…perhaps…maybe. (paraphrase mine) Parents who sit there thinking “Doesn’t our girl look pretty? I’m so proud of her, Honey, aren’t you proud of her? I hope her speech goes well (the one where she tells everyone that she has no intention of following in her parent’s footsteps)! That’s our girl – go get um sweetie! You’ll go far!”
What would entice a loving Christian parent to encourage their child to leave hearth and home and enter into an educational system in which statistics tell us 85% of them will loose their faith? A place where 75% of the young women will lose their virginity before getting their degree…. and 25% of those, will enter their adult life with an STD (sexually transmitted disease). According to one study, the statistics for professing Christians as compared to non-Christian girls only differs by 4%. What could possibly cause a parent to consent to those numbers? Success? Money? Security? Acceptance? Credibility? Finding a mate? What? I’m here to tell you that as for my children, those numbers are simply not acceptable and I’m not hesitant to say I don’t believe they should be for yours either! As Christians, we simply must follow another path and quit seeking the peace and prosperity of this pagan culture. We must come out and be separate from them!
I’ll put a little perspective on this for you. Let’s take Virginia Tech. as an example. According to the official school website Virginia Tech. has over 29,000 students. On April 16, 2007 a student named Seung-Hui Cho went on a shooting spree killing 32 and wounding 15. The percentage of students killed was just over 1/1000th of a percent. Now I ask you as a parent – On that day, if you knew what was happening at Virginia Tech, could you have told your daughter – “Honey, you know, that bad man is only killing 1 in a thousand kids. That’s not very many. I want you to go ahead and go to class and learn and enjoy your friends and have a good time at school. Don’t worry about him, he’ll never get to you. And besides, we really do trust your judgment, Honey! You’ll be just fine!” No, I don’t think you would have said that! If you are like me, you would have wrapped your arms around your daughter and held her close and told her you would never subject her to such danger. I would have physically tied them up if necessary. I think you would prevent your daughter from going at ANY cost! It’s very interesting to me, we will do anything in our power to protect our children from physical harm… why is it that we do not take the same precautions with their eternal souls? To fit in? To be relevant? So they can be salt and light? So that we have a comfortable answer when the inevitable question comes? “Where are you going to school?” What answer can we possibly have that will hold water?
I think that far too many parents come to this juncture in their daughter’s life and they find that they have fallen into a trap that they themselves have set. How many times have we tried to encourage our children by telling them they can do anything they want to, or be anything they desire – because of course we homeschooled them, and by golly, we did a “bang up” job of it! And of course they are so bright and the future holds so much promise for them. We as parents must let go of our pride and stop listening to this wicked culture tell us it’s lies! Success is what God says success is! And if we believe that it is the biblical norm, if not the mandate, for a woman to be a keeper at home, the wife of a godly husband, the mother of many children, etc, etc, etc, then we had better start training them to that end instead of training them for a career. If that is what we feel God would have, then we need to quit preparing them for the “just in case” scenario. If that is the life they should desire, then we as parents had better start painting a picture that shows that particular life as desirable!! That having a godly husband is desirable! That being productive at home is to be desired! That NOT being in the workforce of the culture is to be desired! That children are to be desired! That it is good and right to homeschool your children! That it is good to be agrarian if only to remove ourselves from the culture! And if you desire for them to find a young man who can, and will provide those things, then that is the type of young man you need to encourage them to look up to and for. That is the type of young man you as a parent need to look for! Not one who is frantically trying to climb the cultural ladder of success, striving to attain the golden carrot so that he can spend it upon his own selfish lusts!
It seems to me that since I see so few homeschooled young women desiring these things, I can only assume that homeschooling parents are either not teaching these things outright, or they have been inwardly (or perhaps outwardly in front of their daughters) complaining about their own situations as homeschoolers, agrarians, mothers, fathers, homemakers, etc., crying “Woe is me! Life is so hard!” to the point that their kids couldn’t possibly want that kind of life for themselves. To the point that their kids would never put themselves through all the trouble and pain that their parents had to do. Perhaps it is high time we as parents learned how to TAKE JOY in our own lives so that our children might have hope and an expectation that they can too! It is high time parents learned how to “make a life” instead of just “making a living”!
I ask you, Where do your desires for your daughter lie? What lifestyle do you portray as desirable?
Rant’s over! (or maybe there’s more) Glad that’s off my chest!
Allen
May 11, 2008 at 11:56 am
Well put. Amen!
May 11, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Thank you for this post. You have expressed exactly what I have been thinking for sometime now. I’ve thought about posting on it myself, but I’m even less “qualified”–I’m not married (thus *no* kids) and don’t even have any sisters.
It truly is very sad to see how many girls are planning on going off to college–and excited about it to boot. I don’t beleive “higher learning” is wrong, but there are so many better ways to learn than to subject yourself to the Godless culture at secular colleges and universities. (and “Christian” schools aren’t much better from what I hear)
The Home is really the absolutely best place for education and edification(without the latter, what good is the former?)–if only more people could see that, and were willing to put forth the effort to attain such an enviroment.
Very well written post, and on a subject that desperately needed attention drawn to it.
Keep up the good work,
Matthew (PotterVilla Academy Blog)
May 12, 2008 at 7:16 am
Matthew,
I have just followed the link to your sight and happened to notice that you and your brother run a lawn care business. I thought that was quite interesting because my brother and I do too. This will be our 11th year in business and what was originally a tool our parents used to train us in communication, customer relations, work ethic, business practices, and money management has turned out to be a great support to our family as we strive to pursue a future while remaining free of debt.
Indeed, although my father may not have any daughters he does have a lot of wisdom and truth to share with those who have an ear to listen. The corrupt system of state run education has truly taken its toll on many home school families in our area, but what has surprised and saddened me from my perspective as a son is that not only are some sons forsaking their parent’s vision in order to pursue a “respectable” career, but there are even less daughters who have not fallen for the trap. There are sons who remain faithful to their families but to find a young woman who is doing so is almost unheard of here. Not good odds for a son who hopes to start a family of his own one day!
From one son to another,
Tyler
May 12, 2008 at 11:15 am
Allan,
As a father to 2 grown sons, 1 grown daughter and 1 daughter still at home, I definately agree with you and share your concerns.
What is most troubling to me is the subtle double standard employed by many christians today with regard to traditional family roles. For young women, it is considered somehow confining and unjust to steer them towards marriage and motherhood and away from a career. But for young men; well, they are still expected to provide for and protect a family in the event they choose to marry; their role is unchanged. So then, traditional roles are expected of young men, and actively discouraged for young women. And this takes place even among christians, all of whom should know better.
To a large extent the gifts and callings we have recieved from God are rooted largely in our respective genders. Yes, women are designed (unless God decides otherwise) to bear children and nurture them, in partnership with a husband. Ladies, get over it, get on with it and rejoice in it! Yes, men are designed to work and earn bread by the sweat of their brow. Men, stop trying to shirk your role by shifting it to the weaker vessel. Her ‘career’ is rightly found at home, in her nest, surrounded by your children. If you don’t want God’s design, plan and purpose for raising the next generation, do society a favor and stay single. Singleness too, is a blessing from God, and many are useful and productive in this way. But, reinventing marriage and family according to modern lies about ‘having it all’ only results in strife and failure; and all too often, divorce along with dysfunctional, damaged kids.
But God has called us to peace.
randall
May 12, 2008 at 9:04 pm
This is a good, thought-provoking post. I have one grown daughter who is joyfully married with baby #2 on the way. My second oldest daughter is 15 and I’m teaching her to be a keeper at home.
Here’s where it gets tricky. We have 5 sons. The oldest is 17 and preparing for eventually attending veterinary school. There are some careers that you just cannot enter w/o formal academics. Having attended a 4 yr. university myself, I am familiar with the secular humanistic nonsense they purvey. What would you do if you had a child who felt strongly that the LORD desired for them to because a vet, doctor, lawyer, dentist etc.?
Beth
May 14, 2008 at 11:51 am
A few short years ago, I would have thought this post was nonesense. It has only been in the past couple of years that my family has really starting to practice what the Bible tells us, instead of just being “Sunday morning” Christians. Today my husband and I are raising our 15 year old daughter to understand that she doesn’t have to go to college to “make something of her life.” Instead, she can make of her life exactly what God wants her to by learning to become the best wife and mother she can be. Our homeschool curriculum includes teaching her how to run a home.
Such teachings are not easy, as most of our relatives and even our “church friends” believe the same thing we believed a few years ago. Thank you for this encouraging post.
May 14, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Beth writes,
“What would you do if you had a child who felt strongly that the LORD desired for them to because a vet, doctor, lawyer, dentist etc.?”
I’m assuming here that you meant to ask about a daughter having this desire? Is that correct? Well, in any event, I would first urge him (or her) to count the cost involved in formal schooling for 8 to 10 years, possibly longer in some cases. They should also ‘test’ their calling by taking the hardest courses they can before fully committing to a graduate school and a profession. Second, how do they (and you!) feel about amassing a lot of debt, assuming they can’t get scholarships or grants? How do they feel about possibly putting off marriage and family in order to pursue this calling? Contrary to modern opinion, it’s extremely hard to engage in graduate work, work enough to keep body and soul together, AND give adequate time to a spouse and children.
Frankly, I don’t have any children gifted enough to juggle all those responsibilities for a decade or more, and then still succeed in a demanding career and in their personal lives. For those who do, there is much opportunity for christian service in those areas. Just be sure God has so gifted you and called you, and then remember to count ALL the costs. And for young women, recognize and make room for God’s priorities within family life, if you should want to marry and raise children someday.
My two cents. I hope it helps.
Randall
May 14, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Taci, Matthew, Tyler, Randall, Beth and Barb,
Thanks for the thought provoking comments and questions. Very important points are being made and heartfelt questions being raised. Please do not think me irresponsible for not answering immediately – my time is very limited and these issues are too important to give a glib answer to or comment on. I will get back to you all , but I want to give proper time to ruminate on this. Thanks for your patience.
Allen
May 18, 2008 at 6:55 am
Greetings all,
All very thought-provoking. In my own weak, sinful understanding and application, it is because we have abandoned Biblical precepts and local, covenanted community (as Allen and the rest of you have so rightly pointed out) for the “bowl of pottage” the world has offered and enticed the people of God with. Our love of sin so easily causes us to give up the inheritance Christ has purchased for us. May we repent and learn to keep His commandments, for they are not grievous (I John 5:3).
Jim
May 21, 2008 at 4:57 pm
There is so much to say about this subject! I find that the longer I think on this the more there is to relate and I could go on and on and on. In fact just yesterday we attended a small homeschool graduation here, and in speaking with many parents who also attended, I realize that the problem is no different this year. Janis and I were shocked by what we heard Christian parents telling us. How adept Christians parents are at “christianizing” practices that are not biblical! One sad aspect I see in all this is there will be untold numbers of Christian fathers who apparently have no idea they will be held personally accountable for those things they allow their daughters, who are under their jurisdiction and care, to do. This could easily turn into a book, but I’ll try to keep my head about me and directed toward the comments above.
Taci, coming from a young lady such as yourself I am blessed by that simple statement. It speaks volumes! Your parents can be proud of their girl.
Matthew, Actually, I think that it is young men such as yourself who are “The Qualified Ones”. Comments like yours and Tyler’s should act as a wake up call to those who have ears to listen to wisdom (parents and young women alike.)
You are very correct in saying that Christian colleges and bible schools are not much better. In fact I sometimes think they are far worse. At least in a secular school, you know who the enemy of your soul is! It is much harder to discern when everything has a so called “Christian label” on it and the professors are assumed to be Christians themselves with Biblical worldviews.
I will give you one example that we experienced ourselves. About 16 years ago, when we first began homeschooling, Janis (my wife) agreed to take in a young girl who was pregnant out of wedlock, and homeschool her so that she could keep up her studies, carry the child to term and put her up for adoption. (she was kicked out of her own school because of the pregnancy) This girl lived two hours away where her mother taught in the girl’s phys-ed department at a major Christian college and seminary. This mother was a divorced woman who was also an avowed lesbian. I ask you – Would you want this woman teaching your daughter? Would you want this woman looking at your daughter? Just because something is called “Christian” does not mean that it is anything of the sort! What sort of college would hire a woman like this? I would certainly think a Christian college would have more sense.
No, I believe that Christian colleges and bible schools are just as dangerous, if not more.
Tyler, Thank you son for your confidence in me. It does my heart good to see you take your stand for God on these issues even in the face of much opposition, even when so few others do I am very proud of you! You have become quite a man in your own right!
Randall, I couldn’t agree more with your synopsis of the “Christian double standard” Christians tend to be staunch advocates for sons following the biblical model, but deny the scriptures have any relevance when it comes to the daughters and their futures. The church has become so feminized that it no longer recognizes or accepts clear teaching in this area. The church openly advocates women bearing a double burden by having to bear the curse given by God to them as well as the curse that God gave only to man. That of earning bread by the sweat of their brow. Men need to stand up and be men! Not a bunch of sissies freeloading off their wives!
Beth, God bless you for raising your daughters to be keepers at home! There are at least two young men in this world who will call you blessed! Just think of the impact your line can have on the world when our kids carry this into the next generations.
Regarding your son – I don’t think so called higher learning is as tricky as most people believe it to be. There have always been correspondence schools, but the internet has opened up a whole new world of possibilities when it comes to so called “higher learning”. There are many accredited online schools that are available in which your son can earn his degree while learning at home. Here is just one place you might check into. http://www.biblicalconcourse.com I would also suggest that a young man could study at a local Jr. college. Our own town has a 2 year college that also offers classes from the two major 4 yr. colleges in an interactive video format. (I’m not sure what these are called) I would also check into apprenticeships with local vets after taking a minimum of classes. If you and your son are committed to keeping him out of Babylon, God will be faithful! With a little digging, I believe you could find a way for your son to earn the needed degree, at home, in less time and at a fraction of the cost!
Cost brings up another subject – this one probably will ruffle a few feathers. The last estimate I heard was that it took approximately $120,000 to put a child through a four year college. I don’t know about you, but my family does not have that kind of cash laying around. The biggest purchase I ever made in my life was a home mortgage and I’ve paid on that for 16 years and the dollar amount was nowhere near that amount. The borrower is indeed slave to the lender – as the scriptures tell us. I personally believe that if you have to incur debt in order to send your son to college, then I would rethink whether or not this is really what God wants! How can it be God’s will for a young man to go to school if in order to do so, he and his parents have to violate the clear principals found in God’s Word. Please do a word study on the word debt in scripture and ask yourself if this can really be justified. God is not the author of confusion. My own convictions regarding this area are – rather than pay for an education in which 85% of kids never get a job that had anything to do with their major, I believe it is far wiser to invest directly into your child’s life. (Save that money to put into a home for your son, so that he does not have to spend 25 years paying interest and 5 years paying off the principal of a home. My figures may be off, but I know that the interest alone more than doubles what you pay for a mortgage, so every dollar you save and invest for this purpose is actually netting you more than two dollars – how’s that for an investment?) After all, what does the majority of money a person earns go to each month? Probably a home. If you can help your child enter into marriage debt free, then he has far more freedom to spend time with his family, not to mention, he has much more freedom to enter into the area of work he will enjoy. I have to ask myself how much freedom my family would have enjoyed for the past 30 years if I had no mortgage.
Next, I find myself being very leery when I hear people say that they feel it is the Lord’s will to do this or that, or that the Lord is calling me to go here or there. Yes, I am very guilty of saying this in areas of my own life. In the end, it turns out I was usually just unwittingly trying to give credence to my own desires.(I just needed to be honest with myself and others) Most of those things never came to pass or were clearly not God’s will for me or they would have come to fruition. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that it is not God’s will, I would just be careful about putting words in God’s mouth.
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These CDs discuss these very questions at length and would be very beneficial for your whole family to listen to and discuss together. My own family has done so and I am certain that the course we have pursued has been very different as a result.
I believe that the examples found in scripture of young men and women leaving their parents home lead one to the conclusion that, as a general rule –
• Sons leave to cleave to a wife. I don’t see examples of them leaving for jobs, getting an education, etc.
• Sons are to inherit homes and land in order to assist in setting up a household.
• Daughters are given in marriage. They are to be under the authority and protection of their father until such time as he transfers that authority and protection to the one she is presented to – her husband. I do not see them leaving for education, jobs, mission trips, or any other reason!
I always hear parents bring up Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego as shining examples of how a young person can go through college unscathed. They use these young men’s story to justify the actions being taken in regards to education. I’m not quite sure what they are thinking because as I look into the scriptures, I find a different set of facts. I find that these parent’s thinking is quite flawed. Let’s explore their case just a little. The story can be read in the book of Daniel, chapters 1-3
• 1st off, these young men had no choice in the matter! They were carried off as a spoil of war by King Nebuchadnezzar’s army into the land of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar stole the best of the young men of Judah to have them brought up in the ways of Babylon as an insult to the God of Judah. And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. Dan. 1:3,4
It is very important for us to remember that these young men had already been educated in the Hebrew way back home in Judah, in the home, under their parent’s authority, in conjunction with God’s law. I fully believe that they had already been prepared (by way of a Godly education) for any situation they could be thrust into. Pay special attention to the description of these young men –They were already skillful in all wisdom, cunning in knowledge, understanding science – as a consequence they were able to withstand the King Nebuchadnezzar. Even so, they were thrown into the furnace and lion’s den. I will agree that they came out on the other side intact, but only by direct intervention of Christ Himself. Let’s say, just for the sake of argument that our sons are as well educated, grounded in their faith and as strong as these young men were. Is this what we desire for our sons – to go through trials such as this? Do we assume that Jesus will automatically appear and rescue our kids as well? Is the fiery furnace the direction we wish to point them in so that we can prove they are strong enough.? I think I speak for most Christians when I say “We are not as strong as we think we are!”
II Peter 1:4-10 gives us the recipe (the ingredients that need to be added) for success that I believe these three young men exhibited. The virtues listed in these verses tell us that they give the power to “escape the corruption that is in the world” It is very important to remember that knowledge was only one of the many qualifications needed to never fall as it says in verse 10.
Just as we read in I Timothy 1 about the qualifications God requires of those who are to lead the Christ’s Church, nowhere are there listed academic credentials as requirements. It does not call for a degree, it does not call for seminary training, it does not call for formal ordination. What it does require is character, and the ability to lead ones own family. I think this is very telling about what is important in a man’s life and what we aught to be directing our education toward. If these are the traits God says a man aught to aspire to, then I believe these are what we should train our sons to aspire also.
Barb, Thank you for the honesty. There was a time that I too would have thought it pure balderdash. Had anyone suggested 30 years ago that I would hold to the beliefs I do now, I would not have hesitated to inform them that they were nuts! I am a firm believer in progressive sanctification. Praise God, He has been making change after change in my life, and usually at a pace that is just a little painful. Titus 2:3-5 gives very clear direction on what these young women are to be taught. Do we actually believe what the scriptures say? Our own homeschool curriculum leaned heavily on life skills and character rather than academics. It was always paramount for them to understand exactly what it meant to be a husband and father, provider and protector. We understood that our son’s wives and children probably won’t care so much whether or not they can tell where the hypotenuse of a right angle is, but they will care if they love the Lord, if they can relate to their kids, if they can live with their wife in an understanding way, change a tire, fix plumbing and electrical problems, build a house, fix the family car, etc, etc. Yes, not leaning so heavily on academics brings gasps and comments from relatives, church members and sometimes even from other homeschoolers, but I know my sons are better for it! Be encouraged.
Jim, Thanks for the input. True happiness will never come for any of us until we learn and accept the fact that God is wiser than we are. That only by accepting that He is the Potter and we are the clay, can we be all that we can be. You are exactly right, His commandments are not grievous! I think it is high time believers started living up to their name and actually BELIEVING!
May 22, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Allen,
I have been greatly blessed by your post. One of the ideas you presented kicked me off into a whole new project with my youngest son. It is indeed an answer to prayer. Read about it at http://homesteadherbs.christianagrarian.com/?p=95#comment-2318
I believe quite strongly that if you delight yourself in the Lord, He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4). That is why I have no problem when I hear a Godly man or woman say that they desire something… as after all, as long as we are lawful according to the whole word of God, we may do anything we desire! God places these kind of desires in our heart that He might accomplish His purposes in us here on the earth.
This is the true liberty that God has called us to. When we walk after the Spirit, and not after the flesh, all things are possible (Romans 8 especially vs. 21, Psalm 119:45, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 4:18, 2Cor 3:17, Gal 5:1,13, James 1:25).
I need to call and talk with you soon, or perhaps you’d like to give me a call, which would be fine anytime between 3am and 9pm, which are the hours I’m keeping lately.
God bless you for your post, it has changed my thinking on some issues I’ve been in prayer about for a very long time. God has a way of getting through to us, doesn’t he?
Jeff
Rayville
May 23, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Thank you for writing this! It was just the encouragement I needed today. So many do not understand and I thank God for those who do! Praise be to God for His wonderful plan for men and women to have separate roles to complete each other.
May 30, 2008 at 7:06 am
This was an excellent post, one that my husband and I would agree with fully. We have 3 sons and 2 daughters, all of whom are teenagers. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard from other Christian parents, “You’re going to let them graduate from high school, right? And go to college? Oh… You’re not? Are you really going to just throw them away? Oh please don’t tell me you’re going to waste your children like that!!” *sigh* And it’s our own parents who tell us this the most.
Needless to say, I’m so relieved to “hear” another family, a father in particular, express ideas and concepts that are similar to our own. What a blessing it is indeed!
Thank you for your post. I have appreciated it greatly.
Blessings ~
Lisa
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