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she was three and therefore able learn what happens here. If they dinner or lunch you see everyone
to go to the nursery school, which were washing toilets with Vim, and else seated at the table and then
also helped a lot, she would sleep I want mine washed with Harpic the maid is either seated on the
in the afternoon, so then I pick her then you do that, it’s very simple staircase or outside in one corner.
up in the evening. And even then actually. This picture always appears to me
I used also wash them all when I It’s just about pleasing the master like is she a lesser human than the
came home. I would put them all in and you know also what God tells ones seated at the table. Is that the
the bathtub. you, masters also have to respect case? We can do better, I believe.
I don’t think I have a problem with workers because they themselves
maids, they help; but you also are subject to God. So that’s also Contrast all I have said with the
have to be patient, because they’ll important because there are times next thing I want to share and you
not exactly do what you want. when I feel I’m going to get fed-up will see that of a truth, there is
with her then I go back to God and hope.
And I think this generation say, and me? And I forget what I We went to visit one of our sisters
they are not patient. They was going to do that time. for an interview session and she
have this thought in their I would advise them to be a little shared something very interesting
head, I’m the one paying, I’m patient, first of all to know that with us concerning her maid.
those girls are feeling misplaced She told us how that, that same
the boss, you must say yes to
and some of them are doing this morning before we got to her place,
me in all things and all of that.
as a last resort, not because they her maid who didn’t know us but
The same way they want to get
want to do the work, but because had heard that we were coming to
rich yesterday. You don’t have to they don’t have anything better, visit, came to her room and spoke
quarrel even if somebody does so give them a chance appreciate words (I believe from the Lord) to
something bad.
what they’re doing so that they can her. She told her about us and how
also develop their own confidence. that our coming was to bring a gift
So that human side is really
I would tell them to do that and (spiritual) to her. Both of them took
important? don’t shout. time to pray in her room before
It is, definitely. You know it’s we came, so that nothing would
interpersonal skills. And you Shortly after breakfast, my wife hinder her from sharing her story
develop them as you grow older had a quick conversation with the to the glory of God. And of a truth,
for sure. And maybe I’m not so maid. She asked her, the four hours or more we spent
demanding as I used to be. You
How have you managed to there was a time of refreshing for
must know that they are also
stay this long? both her and us. Apparently, the
humans. So treat them as such. maid is a prophetic intercessor.
Persevering. Getting to know the
person that I’m working for and The question is, do you know who
So what would you advise
taking the good with the bad and your maid or house help really is?
those who find themselves persevering. And will you be humble enough in
struggling in constant cycles helping them know who they are if
of looking for somebody Let’s reason together God shows you? Think about this.
new? The words of scriptures are very
You have to give them time first. clear about human to human These are the last days in which
There’s my neighbor here, she’s relationships, irrespective of what God had promised to pour out His
almost as old as I am and even social class they are. And even Spirit upon His handmaids.
up to now she has somebody here natural human philosophy allows See Joel 2:29
for not more than one month and the same golden rule of treat others Taken literally, anyone who wants
they never go without shouting the way you want to be treated. It’s to be part of the next move of the
and that’s the thing I don’t feel the same principle many religions God that is to come, must take the
I like. So I tell her, where do you base their foundations on and so lowly position of the hand maid of
get these girls from? She says it’s not a new narrative. But one God. In other words, the maid and
the bureau. I say, if you can’t thing I think is the problem, is that madam story is not just a story
endure those ones, get somebody we have somehow found a way to tingle anybody’s ears, neither
who you train yourself because to create a divide between us is it about any form of rebuke to
sometimes those ones that have (employer, madam, middle class anyone, but to call us to completely
been in the bureau have worked etc) and them (employee, maid, become the true handmaids of
in many places and they think they lower class etc). For instance, in God. Cheers.
know the work. So you need to tell many of the houses I have gone
them that each home, each job is to that have maids I have seen
different, so when you come you the same pattern. For example, at

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