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