Something about this piece from Pilgrim’s Inn captured my imagination. Each day as I tidy up in my little house, each night as I cook dinner, set the table, and light the candles, I am creating the bricks that form our happy home, the little corner of this world over which I have dominion. If I were to worry over much about the evils and dangers of world outside these four walls, I would be less able to perpetuate the cheerful, peacefulness of our home. Building the walls and fighting the tide of evil is my husband’s job. I’ll just keep handing him the bricks of good food, a quiet home, and lots of love…“…it was homemaking that mattered. Every home was a brick in the great wall of decent living that men erected over and over again as a bulwark against the perpetual flooding in of evil.
But women made the bricks, and the durableness of each civilization depending upon their quality, and it was no good weakening oneself for the brick-making by thinking too much about the flood.”
-Elizabeth Goudge in Pilgrim’s Inn, pg. 48
That is an inspiring quote, Gretchen! If only more women would see the role of helpmeet as that important. I definitely need to get my hands on some Elizabeth Goudge books.
~Rael~
I love that quote!!! I love that book! I think I’m in dire need of a Goudge re-read session.
Yes, that quote has lodged firmly in my mind as well!