When I was a child, my parents made it a daily tradition that we would read Proverbs 31:10-31. At verse 28 where it says: “Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her.” We would stand and bless our mother and then my father would as well.
This taught me a valuable lesson, not just from reading a very popular chapter of the Bible, but by the life that my mother lived out. She worked hard, owned her own businesses, cooked and cleaned and still somehow found time to homeschool four children along with my dad.
This was the embodiment of the Proverbs 31 woman to me. The woman in Proverbs 31 was full of energy and ready to get things done, she wasn’t restricted to one title but she did multiple things to make sure that her family didn’t have any fear of the future. She was a business owner, wife, mother, seamstress and able to buy property with her own earnings!
Now, I still need to add sewing to my list of skills to learn but I have looked up to this chapter all of my life as I saw my own mother living it out on a daily basis. Now that I have a baby of my own and another on the way, I take time to reexamine my own life so I can ask myself, will my children be able to look to me to see the model of what a wife and a mother should be as well?
As mothers, we often have to carry a lot and do so many things that it can sometimes get a bit overwhelming. There’s no shame in asking for help, this is a partnership and it really does take a community to raise a family. There’s also no shame in resting as needed, God wants us to take care of our bodies, physically and mentally.
This chapter is not something to be held to as an impossible standard, but to me it signifies organization, making smart choices, and running a household the way God would want us to.
In this blog, I will strive to encourage and uplift you, share business strategies, child rearing, self care and health, and also I will be sharing stories of other mothers.
I hope you will stick around for the journey!
God bless,
Rebecca
