Training Daughters, Teaching Wives

Posted By Jacque Dixon on August 18, 2010 in Category: A Woman's Ministry, Every Wise Woman, In the Way They Should Go, Keeping the Home

This is just a response to a comment. I don’t have time at the moment to write up a big long article, especially considering the time I took to reply to the aforementioned comment, so here it is:

August 18, 2010 at 1:50 pm Comment by the proverbial Anonymous, defender of all they believe in, but too cowardly to sign their name and give proper email and website information:

This website makes me sick. You are completely undermining all the suffering and hard work of women before you that have fought to gain equality for women in the workplace, free them from the ball and chain of serving to the wills of beastly men, and you are giving all women a bad image. Please get your head out of the bible, with its untruths, and liberate yourself by becoming a strong and independent women of today.

My Reply:

Your opinion has been noted. Please refer to the Commenting Policy on the About page and be sure to find the red X at the top of your browser for future reference to this site.

As for the demise of all the efforts of women gone before… yes, we know. That is why we exist, to help fix all of the extreme anti-God, anti-woman efforts women have bounded ahead in.
If you will be careful to read this and our other family websites, you will realize that God is all about equality for women, but a many-headed beast will ruin the world and families. We do not approve of male dominance, but of unity and love and agreement. No, we do not believe a woman needs to work outsides the home, but the value placed on that position is left up to the individual. I am sorry you have such a low opinion of women that the only value she can have is if she is equal to a man.

Woman has value in and of herself. She has a place and a role that is as important and beneficial to this world as a man’s. The only difference between me and you is that I do not value a man’s role as more important than woman’s, and you do. I believe woman is valuable as woman, not as a man, in his role, but in her own.
I believe I am doing a far greater job than working to make mere money and gain a place in society. I am building and shaping lives and opinions that will shape the world. I will not allow the government and churches and other people be their mentors and confidantes.

Who are raising your children and keeping your home while you are off becoming like a man? and by “your”, I mean MOST feminists.

I am confident in being a woman and bearing beautiful, intelligent children and keeping my home as a safe haven for them. My husband, who works to provide for us, what then? He doesn’t deserve for me to cook him meals and wash his laundry? What a small price to pay. We work together. He works to provide; I manage the home. We don’t worship Daddy around here. That is equality… working together in roles we are suited to complement each other by. Not trying to usurp each other in a power struggle to see who can be the most like men are.

I feel this way, because I have “liberated myself by becoming a strong and independent women of today”. The Scriptures tend to do that to people, if they are read and followed.

And, no, your future comments will not be published. If you truly believe what you say, have the wherewithal to put a proper name, email and website on it.

Sincerely,
Jacque Dixon, Co-Owner and Publisher, Dixon Family Ministries

People, wake up. Two things: Feminism has not made this place a better world. Period. AND: Don’t read sites you don’t like and leave them nasty comments, anonymous or not.

Rachel wrote a wonderful review of a wonderful book, and it struck this commenter as an oppressing book. Perhaps she would benefit by reading it. It is a wonderful book, and shows the TRUE struggles of a woman and doesn’t hide behind the cloak of feminism, but bears the heart and soul and even the FEARS a woman has! We don’t have to be the fearless defenders of the world. What a BLESSING to not have to do that. What a foolish thing for a woman to do if she doesn’t have to. That’s like fighting to rinse out a dirty diaper to show you can handle it. ICK.

I am proud of the young woman my daughters are. They will be well-prepared to handle anything life gives them.

Sincerely,

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Posted By Jacque Dixon on August 17, 2010 in Category: Making The Home

We have tried to go all-natural, organic for the past 5 years or so, and now we are in Costa Rica, where food and other products are just different. Yes, there is American food and product, but not organic or natural-or not cheap, if it is! most of it, anyway.

In our search to be natural and cut out unnecessary expenses, I came up with a hand cleaner recipe that works well for us.

1 Cup water
1.5 TBSP baking soda
2TBSP white vinegar

I always mix this in a glass measuring cup, starting with the water.
Put soda into water and stir.
Add the vinegar. It will foam when you add it. Just wait for it to come down, then stir gently.

That’s it.
I also add fresh lime to mine, if I have it handy. You can probably add any other citrus, too.

I put mine into a pump, so I try not to put things into it that will clog the pump. It will be watery, but the soda softens the water and you can feel it clean your skin. Besides, though we have been taught to think this way, foaming soap is not the proof that something is cleaning your skin. The final ingredient, vinegar is an excellent cleaner and has been found to be more effective than bleach.

So, when our children come in from playing with the geckos or picking and pulling apart the coconuts, we’ll be ready!

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Posted By Miss Rachel on August 13, 2010 in Category: Uncategorized

Feelin’ Feminine is hosting a No-Poo Challenge! I haven’t used shampoo is about 9months, though I have just been using the natural ingredients for about a month.

Here are the natural ingredients you will need to consider to get your hair in shape and participate:

• baking soda
• apple cider vinegar (any vinegar will work)
• raw eggs
• lemon juice (in addition or instead of vinegar)
• essential oils
• coconut oil

Sounds simple, huh? It is! So, the question is, how healthy will your hair be in two weeks?

Join us!

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Posted By Miss Rachel on August 12, 2010 in Category: More Than Books

Stepping Heavenward is a delightful book written in the form of a epistolary novel, which means it is written in a series of letters or journal entries. Stepping Heavenward is a book written by Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss of an intimate journal of a young woman who struggles with ordinary daily life just as we do, but she strives to “step heavenward” as she deals with disappointment, heartache, and tragedy.

“I wonder if I shall ever know that Mother really does know more than I do.” {from the book, said by Katharine, the one to whom the journal belongs.}

Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss is most well known for her hymn “More Love to Thee, O Christ” and the didactic story she wrote in Stepping Heavenward which was written in 1869. Anyone who reads Stepping Heavenward will be intrigued by Katharine Mortimer’s courage to go with life even as tragedy strikes her, enraptured in her faith, and be mesmerized by the sheer suspense of the story of Katharine’s life. Yo will not believe that you did not write this book, about your own life, once you are through reading it.

When I first wanted to read this book after Amanda had raved about how good it was after she read it, I was intrigued by it being a a book that came from a journal. It is a fictional journal of a girl, but one that could very well be one written about your own life or a friend’s life. I was blessed by being able to read this book. Many a thing I took away from the book to act on and to memorized so that I might better myself in being a daughter and being a follower of Yah. I saw plainly how the days of our lives can simply slip away and how the mistakes we make can effect the rest of our lives.

A lot of the book is scenes from Mrs. Prentiss’s life, as she endured the loss of two of her six children, and suffered poor health continually. She eventually died after spending a few years abroad in Europe in returned to New York (where her husband, Rev. Prentiss pastored the Church of the Covenant), and at the place where they eventually settled in Dorset, VT, in the year 1878 at the age of 60.

After her death in 1878, her husband published The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss in 1882, “for the purpose of fulfilling his wife’s wish that the more costly experiences of her life could be used for the consolation of others. Mrs. Prentiss’s peculiar trials enabled her to sympathize even more deeply with those who suffered such that, later in life, she declared that she loved the house of mourning better than the house of feasting.”

The other works by Mrs. Elizabeth Prentiss -

Little Susy’s Six Birthdays, 1853
Only a Dandelion, & other Stories, 1854
Henry and Bessie: or, What they did in the Country, 1855
Little Susy’s Six Teachers, 1856
The Flower of the Family: A Book for Girls, 1856
Peterchen and Gretchen; or, Tales of Early Childhood, 1860
The Little Preacher, 1867
Little Threads; or, Tangle Thread, Silver Thread, and Golden Thread, 1868
Little Lou’s Sayings and Doings, 1868
Fred & Maria & Me, 1868
The Old Brown Pitcher, 1868
Stepping Heavenward, 1869
Nidworth, and his three Magic Wands, 1869
The Percys, 1870
The Story Lizzie Told, 1870
Six Little Princesses and what they turned into, 1871
Aunt Jane’s Hero, 1871
Golden Hours: Hymns and Songs of the Christian Life, 1873
Aunt Jane’s Hero’,’ 1873
Urbane and His Friends, 1874
Griselda: A Dramatic Poem in Five Acts, 1876 (trans. from the German by Friedrich Halm)
The Home at Greylock, 1876
Pemaquid; a Story of Old Times in New England, 1877
Gentleman Jim, 1878
Avis Benson; or, Mine and Thine, with other Sketches, 1879

I would encourage any girl who wishes to be challenged to read this book. I know that I certainly enjoyed it and many more will also.

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Posted By Miss Jocelyn on July 27, 2010 in Category: A Woman's Ministry, Every Wise Woman

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