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The Young Wife & Mother of Old Times.
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The role of the Mother in times gone by was of huge importance to the family that had with her husband. Her knowledge was passed down to her from her mother and grandmother as she matured in to a young adult.
Her wisdom was of experience mixed with centuries of advice given to her by her mother and other adult women in the family. Back then much importance was put on the health of the family and the deep importance of motherhood, a life which brought much respect, honour and reward.
As a child she was taken outside with her elders to learn of Nature, the Plants, Herbs, Food, and then of the mixing of Herbs, food, and the ingredients to healthy healing soups.
Often people living with no doctors, hospitals and the like near the family home, the Mother was taught all the skills of health my caring Grandparents, and her own Mother, because the Elders wanted to have healthy grandchildren, even if the family moved away, it was just the knowing that the young mother was well prepared, guided and shown how to do her part in the Family Unit that was important.
There was a genuine desire by the Women Adults of the family to pass on what their own family women had taught them. With strong pride in the knowledge and wisdom of Motherhood, the women felt a strong feeling of contentment and happiness sending each young woman off when the young woman married.
In those times an adult woman held up other women’s home skills as the greatest abilities that a woman could have, along with a knowledge that the family needed the Mother to be fully competent, capable, as a Mother, Healer, Book of Wisdom, storyteller, knowledge of family and world History, faithful, someone to rely on, cry on, hug, and be there for everyone, someone knew would always be there for everyone, because the Mother wanted to be there.
The young child was taught how to look after children, often by helping with her own brothers and sisters. Her Elders showed her and her sisters how to naturally treat cuts, grazes (superficial surface injuries to the upper layer of your skin), broken limbs, sicknesses, and what to watch out for to avoid sickness in her future children, while also teaching her how to recognize individual sicknesses, diseases and so forth in the children by their actions, and skin colour and so on.
Also she was taught what to cook as each season passed with what was in the garden. She was also taught what roots could be used in cooking for food, health and to help cure sicknesses. She was shown how to make flour from the roots of plants and other amazing abilities.
The years as a young female child are very busy, yet they kept the young child very content as she grew in confidence, courage, fitness, knowledge and the passed down wisdom that they gave her, each adult woman passed down her knowledge and wisdom to each young female child – the young child carefully prepared becomes the young woman who knows that when she marries she will be appreciated, needed, wanted and an important asset to the family.
The Wife/Mother Role in the family was so important that all members of the family, from the infant to the Father, all went to the mother for hugs, love, advice, comfort, understanding, and help.
This is how women of the past became worthy, strong willed, confident, courageous and capable in a world where nothing is certain, but everything is possible.
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim; accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself.”- H Fierstein.
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Have the courage to stand up for yourself. Please never judge yourself for the shame and wrongs of the past. Instead see the unpolished jewel that God sees in you and wants to polish and make new again. Give yourself a chance, by giving God the opportunity to make you new again
Some of the 2011 and 2010 Facebook statuses that I wrote. Images 2023. James Herriot.
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If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not
believe Him at all.
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We must believe God and God’s ways at all times.
“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God; first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” – Hudson Taylor.
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Each step we take to our own destiny is worth all the effort and all the struggle. Gold and diamonds don’t become shiny and beautiful unless they are worked on and polished – the same is for us. And you are worth more than any jewel or gold.
All the best from James M Sandbrook.