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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 4 – Masters)
Topic: Proverbs 31:10 (04/13/23)
FW- Prov31:10

This is a rant so be warned.

Seriously? Her worth is ‘far above jewels'?

Do you know why?
Because she’s rich!
She has servants.
She has financial freedom.
She can buy and sell and plant vineyards.
Oh, and she has the complete support and respect of her husband in all she does.

Who can find such a woman?
Good question.

I’m sick and tired of trying to live up to this fictional character.

First of all who in the 21st Century lives like this?

Servants.
Weaving all night
Planting vineyards in the day.
Making everyone’s clothes.
Rising before dawn to feed everyone.
Dressing your husband in scarlet
Having a business and running a household perfectly.

Strength, dignity, wisdom, kindness, industry all rolled into one unattainable package trotted out for all the little girls in Sunday school.

Can we be real for a moment?

There are good principals to follow here:
Integrity, faithfulness, sacrificial love, ingenuity, entrepreneurship, etc

But, I’m sorry...they’re not relegated to only wives. They are for us all.

The best verse in all of Proverbs 31 is verse 30:

“Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain
But a woman who fears the Lord
She shall be praised.”

When you are poor and have no servants you can live a life of reverence and love for Jesus.

When you are single or barren you can live a life of reverence and love for Jesus.

When you are abandoned and rejected by men because you are not ‘beautiful’ anymore, as you grow too old or fat for them, you can live a life of reverence and love for Jesus.

When you are working with your hands but have no career outside your home, you can live a life of reverence and love for Jesus.

When you have a career but have no crafty bone in your body you can live a life of reverence and love for Jesus.

Can we put this unrealistic irrelevant fictional woman to rest and focus instead on the diversity and creativity of each woman’s individual calling and gifting given to them by a good good Father in Heaven who never puts anyone in a single box or expects us to all be the same - and who certainly doesn’t set before us unrealistic standards of performance.

In Christ alone I am worthy.
Because of Him I possess dignity and strength.
By His stripes I am whole and worthy.
Father God calls me blessed.
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Noel Mitaxa 
04/21/23
Your title was no deter-rant, for you've mixed frustration with a faith-filled view of life here on earth. Well done.
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
04/22/23
I have mixed feelings as I read this powerful piece. I totally understand the rant and agree with most of it and am happy the MC realizes what is truly important. But it also makes me sad, but I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe because I have had all of these thoughts and realize how much they can hurt while one starts on that journey to realize Jesus is all we need. God bless. I hope writing this helped you and reaches someone who needs to understand too.
Barbara Culler 
04/27/23
Amen- preach it!