She is not a damsel in distress. She does not serve tea to the church ladies with Martha Stewart flawlessness. She is not finding her identity in her career. The Proverbs 31 Woman glories in helping her husband.
Some times my vision of what life is supposed to look like as a wife and mother gets muddled with the the fifties and I find myself striving to be some kind of spiritualized Martha Stewart. The Proverbs 31 Woman is the ideal woman, right? So I begin imposing my view of what makes a perfect [...]
The fact that the poem celebrating the ideal woman in Proverbs 31 only mentions her children once sat uncomfortably with me.
Only once? Why? It’s such important work. It takes so much of a mother’s time and thoughts and energy. Surely it’s more important than making a lot of money (which is mentioned more than [...]
Before I begin I have to say that I just don’t believe that there are only three people in the world who would enjoy a Starbucks gift card … SO go to this post, enter the contest, and come back for my little quiz that [...]
For a long time I just didn’t understand what was so great about the Proverbs 31 Woman. The poem never shows her praying, her children are only mentioned in passing, and her textile business receives a prominent place in [...]
