Thursday, January 24, 2008
Proverbs 31 woman - Day 5 (and an update)
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First, the update. Thank you all for praying for me whilst going thru this latest kafuffle. God is always good and has brought me thru. I may or may not comment on it in the future. Let's just suffice it to say that many times leaving something 24-48 hours before 'doing' anything about it is a good thing. Along with prayer and meditation and consulting with hubby. At least, that's what works for me. Also, the strange event with this computer is over with.....don't know WHAT on earth that was all about. My home school blog has an in depth explanation. SOOOOO.....we're back on track right now with that Proverbs 31 woman!!!! "She looks over a field and buys it, then, with money she's put aside, plants a garden." You know, I get SOOOO tired of the feminists of the world telling us we're 'repressed'. That our husbands "control" us. That we aren't allowed to 'do' anything important. That we don't "work" (cue:  screaming!!!!)THIS verse, above all others, PROVES the depth of this womans not only business acuem, but the trust he husband puts in her with the finances. It ALSO points out that she had her "own" money, something the feminists say is the reason for their 'careers' that take them out of the home. Well, this verse proves otherwise! It also says to me that she was a pretty wise woman. The KJV says "she CONSIDERS a field"......here, she's "looking it over"...Wow, she must know her stuff, huh? Like, what would be the best place to even PUT a garden. Considering things like sunlight, shade, soil content, erosion, critters, etc. And here's the best part. She didn't even have to go begging hubby for money.......she had her own. HOW did that happen?? All that getting up early, staying up late, making things to SELL, contributing to the family income FROM HOME. But that's for future verses! THEN, she added frugality to wisdom.....and planted a garden. I'm thinkin' veggies and food, but what about flowers? Many of these verses speak to the fact that she loved and appreciated beauty. And shared that beauty with her family. I LOVE fresh flowers in my house in the summer. Why do we think only rich "on tv" people can have that? Let's put some of the verses we've already looked at together.....if I'm NEVER spiteful and treat my husband generously.....then he's trusting me without reserve. Which would mean if I found a plot of land to buy and already had my own money......if I'd conducted myself within the priorities God has laid out for me......that hubby would trust me to DO THE RIGHT THING. BUT. If I say......misappropriated funding (that's what they call it!) and bought frivolous things with the grocery money or brought things home I never use or pouted when I didn't get my own way or talked about my hubby behind his back about how mean he was and never let me buy what I wanted......WHY in the world would he trust me? "Without reserve"? NEVER having a "reason to regret it"?? WHEW. Sort of takes ya up by the short hairs, huh? At least it does me. This past year has been one of big things happening. At one point, I thought I needed to control my own life, so I went out and got credit cards, on my own, without my husbands knowledge. I was working.....because HE wanted me to, and .......I'd do what I wanted to with the money left over after I paid small son's tuition. Life changes. Things happen. Just pop over and read my other post about just yesterday and school. NOW, I'm NOT working. But the bills for those credit cards that I used to buy things I cannot even remember.....still come. For awhile, I had money in an account that I could pay the bills with, without having to actually TELL hubby about them. We used all that money to get in this place. Which I was more than glad to do. But the next month came and so did the bill......I finally HAD to tell him how much they were. I'll never forget how disappointed he looked. OR what he said. He said , "well, having to pay bills like that just takes things away from us". I never thought about it that way. BUT......showing the true grace of Christ, this man STILL hands me the grocery money every week. Still loves me. And still asks me my advice about financial things. I had purposed in my heart when I sent away for seed catalogs that I would begin making aprons and selling them on ebay and a website in order to finance our garden. The seeds and all. NOW, I need to use that money when it begins coming in to pay off a debt I never really needed to have. And I've determined that unless my husband says something else, I will NOT plant a garden until I have the extra money to do so. Gardens are sort of like pets. There's the initial cost......but then there's always the upkeep. I pray that I can put away money soon for our garden. But I pray and am very thankful that my husband is reflecting Christ. It has not always been so. And I am VERY glad it is even Biblical for me to be a 'business woman' of sorts. Denise aka The Domestic Angel |
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