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Re: Eulogy of a Virtuous Woman
I don't completely agree with the author's interpretation of the "virtuous woman." We don't get an idea of a plain, "frumpy" woman who lacks finery from Proverbs 31. Nor do we get the picture of a woman who avoids business decisions or doesn't have her own monetary resources. Furthermore, she is so savvy when it comes to business that she makes decisions independent of her husband, and he trusts her to only bring favor to their family name.
Also, I don't know why the author seems to think the virtuous woman isn't beautiful! There IS great validity in the idea that inner beauty will outshine natural beauty, and of course natural beauty fades, leaving only the inward to be seen, over time. However, a passage written about a woman possessing inward beauty doesn't point to a woman who wasn't pretty outwardly, necessarily. The way the comments are written, it makes outward beauty almost seem like a vice, and plainness a virtue.
I DO see a woman who puts God first, tends to her family's needs diligently, is handy with financial matters, and also sees carefully to her own health & appearance.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Last edited by MissBrattified; 01-21-2010 at 01:17 PM.
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