All The Days of Her Life

  About seven years ago my family participated in a Family Sunday School class at our church. It was really quite funny, because it was the largest class at church with a grand total of 19 persons, yet only two families! Those were wonderful times. We would all sit around a really large table and take turns reading from a passage of Scripture. Thoughts and insights would be discussed, and sometimes really long talks would take place!

    I remember one Sunday for some reason the only people able to come were my sister and I, two of our friends and their mother. So us five girls sat around the now oversized table and proceeded to open our Bibles. The mother told us to go to Proverbs 31. We started to read from verse 10: "Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." Then she stopped us and asked what we thought that last verse meant. We ventured guesses like "maybe it means something like the husband doesn't have to worry about what his wife does while he is gone." Or "Her husband doesn't need extra money and 'spoils' because his wife is trustworthy. Maybe?" Then she told us a story of something that had happened to her just a few years prior to that day. In their house she is the one who writes the bills; for years that had been her job. However, one time she did something wrong. I don't remember exactly what, it seems perhaps that she was hiding a bill from her husband, and he found out about it. He was very disappointed in her; his trust in her was damaged. For several months after that he came and checked up on how the bills were paid. Because of her actions her word was no longer enough for her husband. The mother encouraged us girls to be honest, not just with our husbands "one day", but today--with our fathers, mothers, siblings and friends.