A
couple of weeks ago, I decided I wanted to try this, ”blogging” thing. So I set
out to create the page, make it pretty, add some pictures and what-not; then
here I am, a week and a half later – barely writing. This was why I hesitated
to become a blogger in the first place. I’m busy with so many things it seems like
when I finally have time to sit down at the computer, I find myself just
catching up on what’s going on on Facebook, Twitter, News, etc.
Then
I realized the key. I try in my life to share the things a learn, and to learn
from others, but even socializing and chatting with girlfriends has become less
of my weekly routine than it used to be (oh, the college days of living with
other females and having endless hours to talk every day…). This phase of life
I am in is amazing, and I am sure to make mistakes, but I want to share the
things God teaches me through being a brand new wife, putting my husband
through school, integrating into a brand new church body, cooking dinner every
night, struggling to pay the bills and ohhhhh, the list goes on. There is a
lesson in almost every daily task it seems. More importantly, I want to be a
wife that is virtuous.
I want to urge every woman to read Proverbs
31. Have you read it? Good. Read it again. I find something new every time I
read it and I am going to make it my goal to have it memorized (I’ll keep you
all updated on how that goes..). Whether you are a wife, girlfriend, best
friend, or doing the single thing – I believe there are no better qualities
that we can aspire to gain than those of the Proverbs 31 woman. I am pursuing
life as a virtuous wife, and I hope that in my pursuits, I can help others
pursue it too.
“An excellent wife who can find?
She is far more precious than jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
and he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good, and not harm,
all the days of her life.
She seeks wool and flax,
and works with willing hands.
She is like the ships of the merchant;
she brings her food from afar.
She rises while it is yet night
and provides food for her household
and portions for her maidens.
She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
She dresses herself[b] with strength
and makes her arms strong.
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
Her lamp does not go out at night.
She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.
She opens her hand to the poor
and reaches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of snow for her household,
for all her household are clothed in scarlet.[c]
She makes bed coverings for herself;
her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates
when he sits among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them;
she delivers sashes to the merchant.
Strength and dignity are her clothing,
and she laughs at the time to come.
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
She looks well to the ways of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
‘Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.’
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands,
and let her works praise her in the gates.”
She is far more precious than jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
and he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good, and not harm,
all the days of her life.
She seeks wool and flax,
and works with willing hands.
She is like the ships of the merchant;
she brings her food from afar.
She rises while it is yet night
and provides food for her household
and portions for her maidens.
She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
She dresses herself[b] with strength
and makes her arms strong.
She perceives that her merchandise is profitable.
Her lamp does not go out at night.
She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.
She opens her hand to the poor
and reaches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of snow for her household,
for all her household are clothed in scarlet.[c]
She makes bed coverings for herself;
her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates
when he sits among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them;
she delivers sashes to the merchant.
Strength and dignity are her clothing,
and she laughs at the time to come.
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
She looks well to the ways of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
‘Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.’
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands,
and let her works praise her in the gates.”
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