By Sandy Ditoro

 

In May/June of 2004, I taught an online Bible class called, “Prominent Women of the Bible”.  Lesson 5 is entitled, “The Virtuous Woman Was A Keeper At Home”.  The main text for this lesson is Proverbs 31. 

 

Students completed their lesson and we had vigorous discussions going back and forth.  Each student completed and sent in her essay on the subject of being “keepers at home”. 

 

Aneta, who was our writer of the week, last week, was one of my students in that class. She completed and sent in all her work for this lesson. (The essay she wrote for this class was divided up into 5 articles and used as last week’s daily devotionals.)   Our devotional articles for this week, will be a bit unusual.  Aneta has given me permission to share her email entries during and since that lesson.  Our devotionals will be her email notes to me. Each one will be concluded with an appropriate scripture text, which I will add. 

 

 

 

4-4-04

Dear Sandy,

 

My son has watched my pleasure in taking this class. Yesterday, as I signed up for next quarter’s class (way too hard to choose!!), he asked if he could take a class. I registered him for Paul's class. I am looking forward to helping him with this class and hope this appropriate to do so? He is so gifted in remembering verses and stories of the Bible. I continue to tell him that he needs to be a preacher and use the gifts God granted him. He doesn't believe me yet!

 

A disclaimer to my lesson this week. This lesson took a lot of prayer and searching. I have always yearned to be a full time mom and home school my children. However, our financial circumstances do not allow for that. I have spent many years in resentment because Glen was not providing for his family. However, after this lesson, I feel better that I am still with my children continually before and after school.

 

My job is what clothes, feeds, and cares for my children. Although my essay does not fully promote a full time house wife, it has given me a better frame of mind. Please guide and correct me if I am wrong in my beliefs. I welcome guidance at any time. My essay is really a BIG preaching to myself and an awareness where I need to change. Once again thank you for the challenge of digging deeper inside myself!

 

 

Christ said:

   
“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

 

Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;  and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.  (Matt. 6:25-33)

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  (Hebrews 4:12)