Be THIS Virtuous Wife

Motherhood calls us to wear many different hats, even if we really aren't sure we've got a hat on the right way.

The other day, I was sitting on the computer just minding my business, when along came an instant virus! One second everything in the world was fine, and the next second, I had an infected computer with red text threatening that everything was shutting down.

How could this happen? I am innocently trying to navigate around something, and without realizing it, I have now adopted a virus that has me wearing my IT Hat! Did I really get a virus? Do I need to change passwords to protect our information? How can I serve and protect my family in the midst of undesirable, unplanned circumstances?

Motherhood asks that we wear a lot of different hats, doesn't it? Between the nurses hat (healing and bandaging our children up), the chef hat, the chauffeur hat running the kids from one event to the next, the creative hat, the cleaning hat, and now the IT hat (and that still has only touched the surface!) attempting to resolve the latest computer crisis, Mom's need many skills to make it through the day!

Proverbs 31 is a great example of a woman who is busy at work, managing her home and family, and someone who wears a variety of hats when the day is done. She is a business woman, a seamstress, she prepares meals for her family, she serves the poor, she is a decision maker, she is a money manager, and she trusts the Lord with her future (and this list still is not complete)! This is the woman that I strive to be! This requires that I be organized, diligent, rise early and plan ahead.

In the midst of all that we find ourselves doing, and even the challenges we face along the way, let us remember to serve our families, our husbands, our children, and others with this same sort of dignity, strength, and advanced preparation that honors the Lord.