Janelle Esker Being a homemaker is the best career I have ever had! No other career carries the most potential for good, creativity, and improving the lives of people around the globe. It is both necessary and beautiful in its scope! I have been a homemaker for 35 amazing years at the time of this article! Raised six children, homeschooled, created an urban homestead, and delighted in the everyday goodness of God. I found this Homemaker’s Creed in my Grandma’s Betty Crocker Cookbook.
It is time to recast your homemaking vision by journing into the past. Yes, this creed is indeed vintage and yet completely applicable today. The Homemaker’s Creed casts a clear, concise, and hopeful vision. We know through Scripture, in Proverbs 29:18-19 that where there is no vision the people perish.
That said, it is important to realize that Betty Crocker was created in 1921 by Washburn-Crosby and advertising executive Bruce Barton. Crocker was based on a cook from Franklin College who made delicious baked goods for the cafeteria. This apparently, perfect homemaker was the imagination of marketers trying to make money. Influencing homemakers was big business back in the day. Let me be clear, there is no such thing as a perfect homemaker.
Grandma’s Homemaker’s Creed
- I Believe homemaking is a noble and challenging career.
- I Believe homemaking is an art requiring many different skills.
- I Believe homemaking requires the best of my efforts, my abilities, and my thinking.
- I Believe home reflects the spirit of the homemaker.
- I Believe home should be a place of peace, joy, and contentment.
- I Believe no task is too humble and contributes to the cleanliness, order, health, and well-being of the household.
- I Believe a homemaker must be true to the highest ideals of love, loyalty, service, and religion.
- I Believe home must be an influence for good in the neighborhood, the community, and the country.
YOUR TURN…
What is your favorite part of homemaking?
Peacefully Yours,
Janelle
