Recently, I was reading proverbs 31 again, and I am reminded of just how exciting being a woman really is. So many of us look at that book and think that it's talking about the married woman; dismissing it for all of us single divas in motion. But in reality it is about a woman speaking to her son. She reminds him of what kind of man he is supposed to be, and then turns the conversation toward what kind of woman he should choose to love and marry, and this is where it gets interesting.
How can this book only be for married women, if his mother is giving him advice regarding choosing a partner for life? The woman she speaks of would already have to be smart, savvy and capable (prior to marriage) in order for him to identify the character traits that his mother speaks of...
I picture the two of them in some quiet moment. Strolling together, talking of the recent adventures experienced in their absence from each other. As the catching up concludes the two stop and rest as a breeze captures their breath and perfects their afternoon together. The son, now a full grown man, sitting at his mother's feet, as he did when he was a child, listens to this final life changing piece of advise.
It must have been meaningful to his mother as her mind chose words wisely. She understood what her son did not fully comprehend, yet...
that a woman has the power to change a man's life for right or for wrong,
and the one that her son would select to spend the rest of his life with needed to be anything but average. Now, how would she relay this truth to him? . . .
(c) Jamillah Warner, gospelnerve.com. I got the nerve to say . . .
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