Lesson #7 Homemaking
After reading the homemaker qualifications, and the story, do the following activity: Select 3 volunteers. Each will draw a task from a bag. You can have as many tasks as you can think of or have time for, I could only think of 3! The tasks included a small puzzle, read from a children's book, and correctly set a table (one setting). After the girls have completed the task, explain that homemaking isn't always about cleaning, cooking and sewing. The art of homemaking will often include many puzzles, books and yes, of course dinner and perhaps entertaining guests. While cooking and sewing are important, creating a home, an environment for learning and loving is truly the art of homemaking. Our Heavenly Father has given women a divine role that only they can fulfill.
Sister Julie B. Beck, General Relief Society has said,"I have a testimony gained from pondering and studying the scriptures of a plan of happiness given to us by our Father in Heaven. That plan has a part for His daughters. We have the female half to take care of, and if we don't do our part, no one is going to do it for us. The half of our Father's plan that creates life, that nurtures souls, that promotes growth, that influences everything else was given to us. We can't delegate it. We can't pass it off to anyone. It's ours. We can refuse it, we can deny it, but it's still our part, and we are accountable for it."
