A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?"
"Because I'm a woman," she told him.
"I don't understand," he said.
His
Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."
Later the little boy asked his father,
"Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"
"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.
The little boy grew up and became a man,
still wondering why women cry.
Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone,
he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"
God said: "When I made the woman she had to be special.
I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,
yet
gentle enough to give comfort.
I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth
and the rejection that many times comes from her children.
I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone
else gives
up,
and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without
complaining.
I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and
all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.
I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and
fashioned
her from his
rib to protect his heart.
I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife,
but
sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him
unfalteringly.
And finally, I gave her a tear to shed.
This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."
"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in
the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she
combs
her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is
the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."
Proverbs 31:30-31:
"Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
[31] Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate."
PRAYER:
Eternal God, thank you for the women who fear you and have shaped our
lives. May we reward them with the praise they deserve for the
blessings they are and have been to us. Amen.
--Selected from the God@Work newsletter.
--God@Work is a ministry of St Mark's United Methodist Church, 8550 Pioneers Blvd., Lincoln Nebraska 68520 U.S.A.
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