Hi, I’m Ali!
I am 26 years old, a wife of 6 years to my husband Blake, and we live slowly in our hometown in Tennessee. I love to work with my hands by gardening when in-season, baking, sewing, or doing any sort of creative work. You will usually find me with a good book in hand - always alternating between something that is challenging or growing me spiritually with a fiction book simply for pleasure. Most importantly, I love learning skills of the home and passing them on to other women, studying womanhood by the scriptures, and writing with hope that you too can experience the joys of homemaking, seasonal living, and walking in your given calling.
I believe that womanhood is not just a gender, but a beautiful, purposeful, high calling given to us by God and a way of living in the world.
I believe that both men and women are equal in value yet different in role (or how we live that out in the world!)
I believe that because He has given us the calling of womanhood, he has also clearly outlined how we are to live within that calling as given to us by the Bible. And, that we do not have to spend our lives or early years “searching” or “wandering about” on what our calling might be. What a gift that is!
I believe that there is air to breathe and space to be felt in this conversation of biblical womanhood, that legalism has no place, and that biblical womanhood has no assigned “aesthetic.”
I believe that a woman’s calling is first to her home, and that the home is a sacred place.
I believe that when women operate within their given role, marriages, families, communities, and churches thrive.
I believe that true biblical womanhood is not oppressive, it is not a tone of “inferiority” or degration but recognizes the honor, weight, value, and importance of women.
I believe that learning skills of the home is necessary in every generation.
I believe that contrary to how we compartmentalize “spiritual things” and “non-spiritual” things, the seemingly mundane or menial tasks of the home hold the power to sanctify us - making us more like Christ.
I believe that our work is unto the Lord, and not unto man. (Colossians 3:23, 1 Corinthians 10:31)
I believe that as Christians, we are not entitled to any certain kind of life, but are meant to be a living sacrifice for the sake of others.
I believe that because we are a living sacrifice, we are to often lay down our own pre-conceived notions, bad theology, ideas, or personal experiences in exchange for the truth of what scripture says - both when it comes to womanhood and other spiritual matters.
I believe that being a homemaker in a progressive world is not only relevant, is essential.
As you make yourself at home here, I hope you find it life-giving. I hope that you feel both safe and challenged, met right where you are without shame or judgement, yet called higher. And know that I’m learning alongside you.
With care,
Ali