Honor

The feminist movement, to the first women’s amendment, and now today women fight for their unprejudiced rights. We have gained quite the collateral in any area men are predisposed, and now we are even able to have intelligent women to become president of the United States of America. It is of good report, that we are not judged and subsequently treated differently. But the question I ask myself, and you today is this, have these activist caused the light of being a wife and the blessing of being a mother fade? I believe it has. The female justice and equal rights movement has ushered in another child-birth pain for women in our past, present and future generation.
The first amendment for women’s equality, and the halt of hopefully gender discrimination was passed on August 18, 1919 and later ratified. Women all over marched with banners held high and celebrated a victory and triumph over the fight of equal rights. The idea that these women had was good, their acts to fight for the rights I have today, are good. But there is an overwhelming sense of duty to utilize this right, with equal paying jobs in the workforce and high position behind a desk as an obligation. One can work and be a mother too, and I am thankful for that. But along with this sense of responsibility the mother and wife role has been dubbed less in value.
Women now more than ever are bringing in more money than their husbands. They are moving from secretary positions to being the “boss ladies” of high paying jobs. I applaud these women who have worked hard like men and with ease in their favorite stilettos. Indeed I am proud. The portion of women I ask you about today are the many that stay at home with their little ones, cook dinner for their working husbands and scrub dirt from their fingernails after working in their own garden. They do not have a college degree in medicine or law. However they work vigorously with their hands and are under great responsible. The woman who is a stay-at-home mother to even one child is responsible for his proper growth and development. That little boy or girl is a hand in the making of the following generation. These women wake to serve their family with love and respect. If you are a mother you know that it is quite the task. If you are a sister with siblings then you have seen the job on their hands. This is an honored role and aloud it should be stated as just that, honored.
Mother’s should be honored because of their servant’s heart, like Ruth in the bible. She gave up what she knew to follow Naomi, her ex-mother-in-law. She took care of there and provided for her. She mothered this woman who was well in her old years. She provided a home and food. She illustrates the role that many women, single and married fill. Seek to honor those you know who are walking this irreplaceable path. Those bringing up children now need to hear that they are honored and appreciated. In word and deed they need to be praised. In the bible in Proverbs 31 it is titles “The Wife of Noble Character”. This is what I desire to see today come from the lips of many, it is the honoring of this “noble wife.” The bible says “A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, and not harm, all the days of her life…She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks…She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy…She is clothed with strength and dignity; She can laugh at the days to come…Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Today I challenge you to verbally and in action honor the women in your life for what they have done. Admire your mothers and respect yourself if you are a mother, a wife. You have taken on a most honored position. You are the working hands and hearts that usher in this next generation. You are the glue that holds it all together.