House VS Home
The whole process of getting up and doing the “morning jobs” was more cheerful, Jane found, because she had Mrs. Dimble with her. Mark [Jane’s husband] often helped; but he always took the view—and Jane could feel it even if he did not express it in words—that “anything would do” and that Jane made a lot of unnecessary work and that men could keep house with a tithe of the fuss and trouble which women made about it, Mark's help was one of the commonest causes of quarrels between them (That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis, 1996, p80, originally published in 1945).
In That Hideous Strength, Jane’s despises being a wife. And her husband Mark doesn’t help by despising the way she works in the home.
Maybe it’s true that a man would do the “morning jobs” in less time and with less effort. But over time the soul would be taken out of the home. The glory would depart. Maybe a man could find a way to be more efficient, but he would be less effective.
“Give her of the fruit of her hands,
And let her own works praise her in the gates” (Proverbs 31:31 NKJV).
What do you think?
Joseph
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