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A Daughter's High Calling
By Heather S. from issue 25
Please welcome Heather as regular columnist!
Thank you, Heather, for taking the time to share with
us in your journey. God bless you! ~Editors
Years ago at a family gathering, my mom took a plate of food
to my dad who was sitting at a picnic table outside with all of the children.
Coming back inside to make her plate, she saw the sneering faces of
those who pitied her, as someone said to her, “Does he MAKE you
do that?” More recently, my great-grandmother came to visit for
several days, and after observing Mom take Dad his plate at every
meal she said, “You spoil him!”
This made my Mom and I think about how much more we could
and should be doing to bless my brothers and Dad. I would love
to hear someone say to me, “Heather, you spoil your brothers!”
Everything I do to love and serve my brothers is practice for me,
for if and when I get married, I want to try just as hard to spoil
my husband, because I see how my Daddy loves and
appreciates my Mom. Several times a week, sometimes daily
he says to us, “Children, you have the sweetest, most beautiful,
wonderful mother in this whole world. Do you know that?” We
just laugh and agree. Of course it’s just as often that she says,
“You guys have the most wonderful Dad in the world, and he
takes my breath away!” They are so in love and that is sweet.
I want to have a marriage like that some day, so I’m going to try
to treat my husband like the king of his home, and I’ll be his
cherished queen.
1 Corinthians 11:8, 9 reads: “For the man is not of the woman;
but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created
for the woman; but the woman for the man.” God created
a woman to be a helpmeet to her husband. While not married,
we should help and serve our father. I’m convicted that I haven’t
been serving my Dad and brothers lately like I should. I’ve
been more caught up with other things instead of serving them.
I know that they appreciate me helping Mom keep the house
in order, but I also want to find time to just do little things to
show them love and honor, like:
Make their plate and give it to them with a smile :-)
Be willing to put aside what I am doing to help them
(not grudgingly). Oftentimes my brothers will ask me
to help them do something (hold a board, help them catch a
horse, etc.) and I will say I’m too busy, or I’ll do it, but not
as cheerfully as I should. When I do that, I know they wish
I wouldn’t have even come to help them at all! (I’ve heard
it said that when someone is helped, they like it!) How I want
to bless them with my love that just flows through my helping
hands. In turn, I will know much more joy as I seek to love
and serve them more, as Christ has loved me. “This is my
commandment that you love one another, as I have loved you.” (John 15:12)
My brother recently hurt his back and asked me to
take his boots off when he could not lean over to do it
himself. When my Dad and brothers come in sore and tired
from working outside all day, I realize that I could do this
simple act of kindness for them as a little way to say, “I
appreciate you and I love you.” I think it would be impossible
to measure the power for good that our love has in their lives.
Without opportunities like that, who can know how our love is
shaping our brothers to become the men God desires them to be
and to walk in the good works that He has prepared for them?
What a privilege we have been given as sisters and daughters to
edify the men in our lives with our powerful love. “She will do him
good and not evil all the days of her life.” (Proverbs 31:12)~
Reaching Higher,
Heather Schmidt
Heather S. (13) lives in Paden, OK. with her family of six.
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