Girls who are in their father's home, older girls, how should they use their time? Well, if the scriptures are our guide, and they are, it would seem that they should spend a good deal of time figuring out how they can serve their father and serve the general needs of their household, how they can add value, if you will, to their household. If we look to the scriptures, the normative pattern is for a young woman to marry at some point and bear children at some point. Obviously, there are exceptions to that, but that's the normative pattern. And so most of us, if we're wise, will most likely kind of orient our daughters in that direction.

What does it mean to be a wife and how can I, as a dad, walk alongside her and prepare her for that? What does it mean to run a household? What does it mean to have children and raise them up? And so walking alongside mom in those areas as they're being trained and then with her gifts and talents and skills that God is developing in her, how can we bring those to bear in furthering the mission of the household in which she currently resides, which is her father, her father's household. So, you know, if How can she serve the church with her gifts?

How can she serve his other pursuits with those gifts in that time? That's the way that it seems to—that's the picture that seems to be painted in Scripture. Of course, the cultural picture is completely and totally 180 degrees out different from that. But it would seem to me that she should spend her time serving her mom and dad in the household, preparing herself to be an eventual wife and mother, and aiding with the other children as well. This, of course, doesn't mean that she shouldn't educate herself and grow and all the things that God has called her to do.

But it does mean that her orientation, her vision, is oriented towards the home, is pointed in that direction.