A Proverbs Woman=A Godly Woman

   "She keeps an eye on everyone in her household, and keeps them all busy and productive."-Proverbs 31

"Many pray, Lord, send me a husband or wife. But few pray, Lord, prepare me to be the husband or wife I need to be."-Adam Cappa

           Wow! I come back to AR from my parents' house after a few days and it feels like God is just throwing ideas at me to write more. I came home and saw this saying on a friend's Facebook and while thinking about it for a bit, Proverbs 31 came to my mind. I read that Proverbs before I went to bed and woke up this morning deciding I am going to be that kind of wife or at least work on it since I have the time right now. 
          I want to say some things about the saying from Adam Cappa. I don't know Adam Cappa that well but I do know he is a famous Christian singer and songwriter. Just some back history if you didn't know him either. The saying is so true and yet I'm seeing that doing that is so sad. I am guilty of praying "send me a husband" without even thinking about who I am for my future husband. We all might think it is a good thing to pray that but I agree about praying that God will make me the wife I need to be. Thinking about it that way seems, to me, that you care about your future spouse's happiness more then your own happiness for just having a spouse. 
           Another thing that I thought about while I read the quote is "marriage is a mission field". It is a mission field right here in America. We pray "send me some place to help people or that country" but that isn't right either. We should be praying, "prepare me to help those people or that country and then send me". Just like this quote says about marriage. We need to be prepare for anything and any mission from marriage to going to another country and everything in between. We need to be prepared and have God in our life and know what it is like. 
          Some people might think it is funny but also true. Marriage is like a whole other country. You have this new person that you have to give your life to. You chose to marry this person knowing that you will spend the rest of your life with them. It isn't a whole country or organization but it is still a person and they matter. Just like you have to learn and prepare yourself for a whole other country's culture, you have to prepare yourself for your spouse's "culture" too. You both are different because you came from different families and sometimes, even different states or country. You have to find things you agree on to get along and you can have some differences but not on everything. You have to connect somehow to make the marriage work. 
           Then there was that moment afterwards that Proverbs 31 came to my mind and I had to look it up and read it. I have decided since I'm home for now that my goal is to try and do every one of those verses or at least to try and get better at them because I know some of them I can like getting up early, being excited about the day ahead of me, organizing my day and my meals, and things like that. I figured that I will try and write about one verse a day about what it means to me and what I can do now to help me prepare for my future spouse. 
          As you can see, the verse I picked for the rest of this week is about being busy and productive. It says to keep everyone in household busy and productive, which right now it is only me and I could work on that with volunteering places and hanging out with friends and more. It could also mean, to me, that I keep busy with my friends by keeping me updated with their lives and help them if needed. My real dream, besides owning a daycare, is being a stay at home mom and wife and what better way to prepare myself for that then trying to live out Proverbs 31. 
           If you know me at all, you also know that my college degree pretty much sums up Proverbs 31, especially when you look it up in The Message Bible. It even mention "homemaking". I already love to do all the things that it says so why not add more onto those things to not only prepare me for a spouse but to make me healthy too, both psychically and mentally. If I could do it now, it only makes me better in the long run or so they say. 
         It is all about making God using you for His Glory through those things. That whole chapter is really one talented person with a lot of talents put together. Never look down on a Homemaker/Stay at Home Mom because she does more then anyone else especially when she has a lot of children. 
        Now I am off my soapbox for a little bit. You can see where my passion lies and how I have been raised, though.