When Mom Wears a Dress

I slid open my closet door and surveyed the options. Black pants, khaki pants, gray pants, Capri pants. Hmmm… what to wear to church? Shuffling aside a few hangers, I spied a pink summer dress stuffed between a pair of corduroys and an old cardigan. When was the last time I wore you? I spoke silently to the dress. Oh yeah, last year for that wedding shower—banished to my closet ever since, poor thing. I pulled it out and scanned for wrinkles. Not too shabby. I slipped on the dress, strapped my sandals, and met my family in the kitchen. …

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When Mom Wears a Dress

“She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come,” (Proverbs 31:25). I slid open my closet door and surveyed the options. Black pants, khaki pants, gray pants, Capri pants. Hmmm… what to wear to church? Shuffling aside a few hangers, I spied a pink summer dress stuffed between a pair of corduroys and an old cardigan. When was the last time I wore you? I spoke silently to the dress. Oh yeah, last year for that wedding shower—banished to my closet ever since, poor thing. I pulled it out and scanned for wrinkles. Not …

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Raising Girls to Be Ladies

As we walked down the hall, she bent over, looked my grandgirl in the eye and said, “Little ladies don’t do that.” My daughter-in-law is very intentionally raising a little lady and it’s a beautiful thing. In a world where being a lady is almost a lost art and not a very revered role, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for moms to expose their little girls to what a real lady looks and acts like. During an interview, Elisabeth Elliot said of her mother, “If I were to have asked my mother if she had to work hard to be reverent …

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