A MOTHER’S WORK IS NEVER DONE (A Tribute to a wife and mother) Everyone has a mother and everyone can relate to a mother even if your mother is in heaven. Mothers are especially blessed of the Lord because they have a much harder job to fulfill than do husbands and fathers. There’s a vast difference between Mother’s day according to the Creator of the Universe and Mother’s day according to the calendar. Husbands and fathers are kind of like cast iron pots as compared to Wives and Mothers who are like a fine vase. A fine vase is more delicate and fragile therefore they need more protection. A cast iron pot can take just about any punishment and survive to meet its intended purposes. God purposely designed women from the rib of the man because that was close to his heart and under his strong arms of protection. Secondly women was to be the life givers to the world and the life is in the blood and the bone makes the blood. After Adam, no man would exist if it were not for a woman. Wives and mothers were created to be feeling orientated helpmeets for their husbands who are logic orientated. The design of one is no greater or lesser than the other. Why, because they aren’t designed to be combative or competitive yet they’re designed to complete one another; looking out for one another and not trying to out-look the other. They’re both designed to see exactly what God wanted them to see. Wives and mothers are created more Omni-directional therefore they are better at organizing and multi-tasking. On the other hand husbands and fathers are just straight forward, single in direction, staying on the path for the long haul, orientated. Their sight stays fixed on the long term goals but the immediate surroundings tend to get ignored, by passed or even forgotten. Yet the long term goals are still in sight. This is but one of the many reasons a wife and mother’s work is never done. The short term goals come into view quicker and more frequent that does the long term goals. A wife and mothers job, like faith, “It’s always now” and can’t be put off even for a moment. The husband and father can just put the whole ship on auto-pilot and rest for a short time but a mother’s work is never done. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to realize that a wife and mother is on call 24/7. She’s the first one to notice when things start going wrong in the temporal realm of the immediate surroundings. Everyone including the children always call on her when anything goes wrong. She’s the first everyone calls on when anyone gets hurt, has a pain or just needs a little attention. That’s why she understands the importance of time and attention given. She’s the basic attention giver while he’s the basic directional driver. Just because the ladies are feeling oriented isn’t a disadvantage or a weakness. The woman’s God given orientation and talent is just what the logic orientated husbands and fathers need in order to meet their calling and obligation to their family and God. The husband and father maintains the direction while the wife and mother maintains the livable location. Both goals must be met and both husbands and wives are designed to do their part to its completion without being competitive, high minded or lording-it over the other. Wives and mothers have special insight that is linked heavily to their feelings. This makes them nearsighted because they are greatly concerned with the immediate surroundings. This is a necessary and fulfilling awareness especially and specifically designed to fulfill their position as helpmeets. This is the reason I said that wives and mothers have a much harder job than do husbands and fathers. Watching over and caring for the affairs of the life that are illuminated within their field of sight means they can’t stop or let up even for a moment. On the other hand, a husband and father can take time to rest without loosing sight of the long distant, long term goal. The long-range field of sight given to the farsighted male doesn’t require minute by minute attention like the present temporal things. But it does require logic without interference of feelings. The combined job of both the mother and the father always balance to both the reason and purpose of life according to the eternal creator. Marriage is never a 50/50 proposition unless you’re doing only half a job. It takes 100% dedication on both parts to succeed according to God’s great design. God designed the man to be the head of the family not out of partiality but because our Heavenly Father defined the task. Now all involved must work to complete the assignment as He alone has designated; anything with two heads always becomes a monster. The train always leads the following cars but the engineer is held responsible for every track taken. A good family engineer always needs the shortsighted vision of his wife to keep the tracks under the wheels clear of debris. Husbands and fathers are not superior to the wives by any stretch of the imagination. Being logic orientated means they should always reason and think honestly and seriously about every decision they make because they are called into leadership. Leaders take authority and lead regardless of how they feel. This makes the husbands and fathers responsible for the long distant plans. Therefore, God created them to be farsighted and gave them a helpmeet that was shortsighted in order to have all fields of vision both physically and spiritually covered. The low beams are just as important as the high beams even though they function separately they are one in position, location and direction. They complete the task together when they don’t waste precious time competing with one another. Never forget that more attention is required in the shorter field of vision. This is one of the reasons wisdom in the book of Proverbs is seen as a “Lady”; if you take care of her she will take care of you and when she is neglected she will not bring benefit or reward when you need her most. Husbands and fathers have the ability to set the auto-pilot of faith while they cruse and rest for the long race ahead while wives and mothers just can’t let up for a moment. If they do, their feelings and emotions wander outside their field of vision. Don’t wait till the calendar reminds you that mother’s day is near. Take the time to embrace the wife and mother in your life. Help-meet her deep desire to feel needed and appreciated every day of the year and not just on mother’s day according to the calendar. Take the time and the effort to pay special tribute to your mother and give honor to your dad at the same time. Bob Lawrence 5/6/07
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 03:08:08 +0000
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