Friday, March 8, 2013

A Plea to the Older Women

Where are you women of wisdom,
You whose behavior is reverent,
whose words edify, you
teachers of good?
I search, but find none. No one
who sings the choruses of
protective headship,
sweet submission,
 homekeeping
as refreshing, nourishing,
morning dew atop this
new, budding rose.
None who teach and exemplify
self-control, chastity, kindness,
biblical love that serves
others,
not selfish desires.
But rather
I hear clamor and lies
of how pouring life into those
entrusted to me
will scorch my strengths;
strengths for which better use
could be found outside these
four walls, and my parasitic family. 
I am trained not in the ways of
biblical femininity,
but feminism, infecting
the Church.
I see not an example
of proper headship, but
a sea of headless women,
usurping, and foolishly tearing
down homes day by day,
brick by brick.
But I need
You,
O wise woman,
who has built a
lovely, sturdy house.
Who in years past
fought in these trenches against
the ways of the world.
Who will now encourage me in
the ways of the Word.
Who lovingly submits
to her own husband,
and who served God in
the  role He deemed best for her,
as wife and mother.
Who welcomed children
as blessings from the hand
of God.
Who sought purity.
Who guarded her home
and her mouth, who trained
dear children and responded
to a dear husband with kindness
and self-control.
Please show yourself.
Please stake yourself
beside this budding rose,
so I may grow straight and tall,
learning what God's word calls
good.


Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,  and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,  to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Titus 2:3-5