Kathy S. writes:

I’m delighted to have come across your website.  What a blessing to find such an articulate writer who is on my side!  I’m 62, had my 2 children late in life (that’s when the Good Lord sent them), homeschooled them.  I’ve been a full-time homemaker for 30 of the 32 years of being married.
 
I had the great joy of raising our children, of being with them day in and day out.

 
But now that they are gone and each a solid day’s drive distant, it does get lonely.  Our consumerist, materialistic society truly does not value what a full-time wife and mother contributes, and of course my husband and I are now paying a financial price in our “retirement.” We have no retirement because we squeaked by on one very “average” income.
 
So, your articles are a great encouragement to me!  Many thanks.
 
Laura writes:

Thank you very much.

It may be hard for you to fully see how your days are enriched by all you have done. I know women your age who never spent time with their children or never were involved in their education, molding their minds and characters. Their loneliness, I suspect, is much worse than yours. They have many regrets. They fill their days with busyness and with spending to help them forget. They have lost the capacity for simplicity. They can’t enjoy the common pleasures of making good meals everyday, growing food with their hands, beautifying a humble home, or nursing the old. Look into their eyes. The emptiness is there.
 
You can sail through old age with a clear conscience. But, let’s be honest. You paid a real price to do the right thing. Virtue does not come cheap in this world. Doesn’t that make sense? Let’s say the right thing was always financially right too? Would virtue then be virtue? No. It would be nothing at all.
 
We are in a state of war. It’s a war for our homes and for our culture. When veteran soldiers such as yourself look back on the sacrifices they have made for their country, they should count on the support and praise of their people. You cannot count on that. All the more reason why your sacrifices are precious in the eyes of God and why your virtue is something real and true.
 
Many well-off retirees have empty lives and broken families. You have the things that count. Young women are desperately searching for evidence of decency in a culture that glorifies aggression and selfishness. They are looking for people like you.

I wish you, your children and your grandchildren the very best.

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