A big shout-out to all the mothers who are working inside and/or outside the home. Bless you. We need you. It’s a thankless job. I was just talking with June about a friend’s daughter who is an Air Force officer. June said, “She has just been selected for colonel.” I replied, “I thought she was going to retire.” June said, “Well, she was, except she ended up staying at home a lot during COVID, and she decided that getting promoted and serving as a colonel was easier than staying home and taking care of the kids.”

You can make of that story anything you want, but the main lesson is that mothering is hard! Again, bless those who have done it and are doing it.

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. (Proverbs 31.27, 28, ESV)

Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don’t want anyone looking down on God’s Message because of their behavior. (Titus 2.3 – 5, MSG)