My Journey Begins

I am starting this blog as a way to encourage and journal about my journey into becoming a woman from Proverbs 31. I want to be a woman of virtue. A mother who displays a love, fear, and reverence for God. I have 3 beautiful daughters and I want them to be woman of God. 

What sparked my desire to be a virtuous woman? I chose to do this after one night of being overwhelmed at home. I had come home from work to a couple of sick babies and the day went from wonderful to not so good all by 5:30. I had the 2 older girls, H and G bathed and fed dinner all by 5:30. When C started eating, and that's when it all fell apart. Why does it seem like as soon as a routine is settled in that kids want to disturb it? Why is it when 2 kids are sick and the baby needs fed that they decide to kill each other? Why is it that the night my husband (Hubs) decide to work late the house feels like it's going to fall apart? All questions I asked myself when I was feeling overwhelmed. 

Then came the feeling..... I felt the convictions, the way I was handing the situation. The way I disciplined the girls, the way I was telling my kids one thing, and doing and thinking another thing.How can I raise Virtuous woman if I'm not being a virtuous woman? Ok God I hear you, I cannot hold them to a high standard when I don't hold myself to the same standard. Ok God I hear you I hear you.......

So what am I going to do about it? I decided after Hubs went back to work that I was going to do this. I am going to help other woman besides me become a Virtuous woman and they can follow in my journey with me to become a woman of virtue who would be proud to be called a Woman of God. How can I be a role model to my girls if I don't live it myself.

What is a virtuous woman according to the scripture?
According to the ESV which is the version I read and like the best.(to each his own, read it in your version that speaks to you) I am breaking this down daily into a verse or two here is the first verse of what it means to be a virtuous woman.

Proverbs 31:10

An  Excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

WOW! I am more precious than jewels. Really? Me? Silly old me? God thinks I am more precious than any jewel he created and he created them all. Oh my, that's a lot to say about me. I don't always feel I am that precious. A virtuous woman is precious? Of all things that is not what i would have expected a virtuous woman to be. Most ladies who are married or engaged have at least one precious jewel on their hand. If that jewel is not kept clean what happens to it? It gets dull and dingy and it doesn't shine like it used to when we first got it. That's what can happen to us too.

Remember in order to keep ourselves as that precious jewel we need to stay polished and clean....."how do we do this", you ask? Let me tell you what God showed me. He showed me that the way I can do this is to read his word daily, treat myself the way he would treat me, and to just take care of myself.

God wants me to shine like a precious jewel in everything I do and everyday. I need to remember that I am a precious jewel.

~Samantha

Prayer:

Father, I know sometimes I don't shine the way I should, I let life get in the way, I make myself dull and dingy and my walk gets that way too. Lord please allow me to become that bright shinning jewel that you made me to be and show your love through my life and make me the virtuous woman you intended me to be. AMEN.