Infertility, Singles, & The Productive Household

Bright Hearth

Brian Sauvé, Lexy Sauvé

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Femininity, Kids & Family, Cooking, Parenting, Patriarchy, Masculinity, Productive Household

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Welcome to Bright Hearth, a podcast devoted to recovering the lost arts of homemaking and the productive Christian household with Brian and Lexy Sauvé.

In this first season, we're walking through the various rooms of the house with the question: "What are the essential arts and duties of this room? How does this room serve Christ and his Kingdom?" In this episode, we work through one of the most repeated questions we've received throughout this season of Bright Hearth: What about singles? The childless couple? How do they fit into the productive household?

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0:00.0	Years ago, my husband and I were attending a church dinner, where part of the program included asking all the singles in the church to stand.
0:06.8	At that time, there were only three, my oldest daughter and two young men.
0:10.7	When my daughter's turn came to be introduced, my husband said, she's not single, she's a daughter.
0:15.8	Ever since that evening, I have felt uncomfortable with the term single when referring to unmarried
0:20.0	men and women in our church.
0:22.2	Today, our numbers have swollen, and we have many unmarried men and women of
0:26.2	marriageable age as part of our growing church community. Our
0:29.7	individualistic culture wants to label unmarried people as singles, but in the covenant community of God there are no singles.
0:36.7	God calls us family.
0:38.7	Brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers in Christ.
0:41.6	We are each to be wonderfully connected to the other as part of a church community,
0:45.8	where each person is needed and attached to others in her own family,
0:49.8	as well as to the broader church family. In a healthy church community, there will, of course,
0:54.4	be many married couples with children of various ages.
0:57.6	But there will also be widows, couples who do not have children,
1:01.0	old people, college students, and unmarried men and women.
1:04.7	And our church is not uncommon for us to attend several baby or wedding showers a month.
1:09.7	It's very easy to focus on the needs of these young women who are becoming wives or mothers,
1:14.2	and forget to look out for the needs of the widows, childless couples, elderly saints, or the
1:18.6	single men and women.
1:20.0	This is why we need to stir one another up to love and good deeds.
1:23.4	We are to minister to one another in various ways, and if we were all the same, life would be
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