Young Women general president, Bonnie L. Oscarson, put a novel twist on the term “homemaker” in the April 2015 general conference.  She stated that “All of us—women, men, youth, and children, single or married—can work at being homemakers.”

Do you suppose that it would raise eyebrows if when filling out a form a man would write “homemaker” in the place where he was to state his occupation?  Is there any better title he could use?  The word “father” might be another good choice, but what is a father if not a homemaker?  Aren’t the titles “homemaker” and “father” more exalted titles than “engineer,” “doctor,” or “CEO?”

Which do you suppose will carry more weight when a man stands before his Maker and says, “I built a magnificent ranch,” or “I raised a righteous family?”  Do you suppose that the Lord will care that you were the founder of a Fortune 500 company?  Don’t you suppose that He will be infinitely more impressed if you were the founder of a peaceful, gospel-centered home that sent trained and disciplined disciples of Christ out into the world to practice and to spread their knowledge of what is good?

Who is richer, the man with millions of dollars, or the man with a righteous posterity and a happy home?  Which man will still be in possession of his riches a thousand years from now?

Aren’t these questions worth pondering?  Do I, or do you, need to make any course corrections?  Does this change the way you and I view the word “homemaker?”

(Alma gave a clever sermon in Alma chapter 5 that was essentially a list of 42 questions.  Such a presentation forces one to think.  The above article has 12 questions.  I wanted to see if I could do what Alma did.  What he did was hard.  What he did was inspired and cleverly done).