I am thankful however for another life lesson and opportunity for living out Biblical womanhood.
Titus 2:3-5 (New International Version)
3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
The way I see it my friends is I am now the older woman who is to train the younger women but I can't do what I don't live out. So I chose to love my husband and sick child yesterday by do small "unusual" things to help and make their day easier.
For Kevin, I chose to accompany him in the pouring rain to help jump start the battery in my van that we left at the diner since lunch time. It was dark, cold, and nerve wracking...we discovered we didn't have jumper cables in the van or the car. Kevin had to go home and get them out of the basement!!!!! Why are they in the basement and not our cars??? This loving Biblical woman wannabe kept her mouth SHUT! Yes I did!... until this morning when I "vented" to my friend...we laughed but no one else can or I will scratch their eyes out with my fresh polished red nails. My old nature would say "Kevin will you be ok doing this on your own?", but yesterday’s wife said, "I want to go and help." This is a victory toward my quest, considering I am a child of a mom who warned me not to learn how to check the oil in a car, nor mow a lawn because I would be doing it the rest of my life. Funny thing is my mom did all these things as a single mom with 4 kids. We got the van started and Kevin and I shared in the joy of accomplishment, then came whom and stripped off our soaking wet clothes so we could tend to Cory.
For Cory, I did all the normal, nurturing, loving mom things...dispensed meds, wrapped him up in a blanket, and gave him the remote to the TV! The TV is my sacrificial love thing. We have watched every crime show, music video, and other "guy" stuff. Somehow serving him ice cream for breakfast wasn't as hard as getting through Zac Brown silly videos. The best part was enjoying his smiles, seeing him relaxed, and watching him breathe just like when he was a baby. I praise God for his gift of Cory…the gift of being a mother.
Friends, being a woman of God is so much more than a clean, organized, routined household. It's doing the little unusual things that speak love to your family. Does it mean I throw caution to the wind and play all day…sometimes, but the verses also include, “busy at home”. I don’t think our homes have to be a mess and dirty laundry has to be the norm in our homes but we can break away from our norms to indulge in their form of love. For example, I hate cooking bacon. My husband loves it. He is watching his cholesterol and his sugar so he hasn’t had any in quite sometime. He went and bought some last night for breakfast this morning. I didn’t fuss or lecture. This morning I made his bacon and basked in his smile of contentment. I am not much of a cook but to cook his favorites and serve him, well, that spoke love to him.
So like a said earlier, Life is Good! I can love. I can provide a smile, but the best part is what I get in return….a blessing from God.
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