Article September 23, 1944 Issue

Program for Homemaking

D. MURIEL SAVARY

Keen interest and skilled training are at the moment being focused on the immediate need of supplying adequate housing accommodation for all. What an appropriate time, therefore, to examine our own hopes and desires in this world-wide homemaking program! It may be that we long to establish a finer home than we have before enjoyed. Or it may be, if we already possess a home of beauty and noble ideals, we pray most steadfastly that it be maintained as a most important center of true activity.

Millions in the last few years, whose homes have been crushed and crumbled by bombs or shell-fire have wandered from city to town or village, seeking some place to rest awhile, where fresh courage and determined effort might be gained with which to face anew the tumultuous problems of the day. Heavy, indeed, has been their burden, bereft as they frequently have been of all that they most dearly prized.

For newborn hope and inspiration regarding the true nature of home we may turn to the fifth chapter of II Corinthians. There, in the first verse, Paul's comforting words answer our prayers that such a permanent superstructure may be found, one which can never be demolished or deprived of any of the riches it possesses. "For," says Paul, "we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." When this house "eternal in the heavens" is recognized and upheld in our thought, all that is impure, sensual, selfish, will be removed, and there will arise the noble, pure, selfless qualities of the real man in God's likeness, forever at one with divine Love. Such qualities alone build the foundation of harmonious and happy homes.

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