If you want to meet some strong, honorable women, show up at a prison visitation weekend and see the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters who anchor families worn down with challenges, sorrows, hard times and grief. But they cling to their sense of family and hope for a better future. Many of these women care for children they did not birth at a time in their lives when they expected to be less constricted by responsibility. Many withstand derision from family, co-workers and church friends for sticking with their wayward family member. Many have a hole in their heart at every family gathering where there is an empty chair at the table. Many bear an unreasonable sense of guilt for decisions they did not make.
They don't get it perfectly right, but none longed to be in such a position and they are still figuring it all out.
Won't you please bear them up in prayer? If they show up at your church, won't you welcome them as Christ welcomed you? Won't you be the hands and feet of God and speak a world of kindness?
Strength and honor are her clothing; she is confident about the future. Proverbs 31:25 (CEB)
They don't get it perfectly right, but none longed to be in such a position and they are still figuring it all out.
Won't you please bear them up in prayer? If they show up at your church, won't you welcome them as Christ welcomed you? Won't you be the hands and feet of God and speak a world of kindness?
Strength and honor are her clothing; she is confident about the future. Proverbs 31:25 (CEB)
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