p.31:19

Proverbs 31:19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

For an example on what is a spindle, distaff, and how they are used watch this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSdZdHCh40

Time. One of the best ways to show love and care to someone is to give of your time. I had always read proverbs 31:19 with no idea of what really a spindle or a distaff even looked like. I did consider something to make clothes, but as you can see, it is more than that. Spindling is creating the material that you will use, making string is how i see it. This might be incorrect, I do not know much about it, but with half hour viewing of youtube videos I watched in order to write today about this... its an idea. So, that is why I consider it important to mention the value of time. Mothers used to take the time to go to the market and buy the cotton, etc that they were going to later take the time to spindle and later make clothing out of. Can you imagine that? We don't want to even iron now-a-days... makes me think that that is probably why at times mothers used to go to sleep later before... as we saw in verse 18. If I were to spindle, I would probably not be "late" night blogging, I would be using a spindle and a distaff. But all this also makes me think about how much more then people would value what they had, after all they had to not only work for the money to use to acquire that material they were going to spindle, they also had to make their clothing themselves. Imagine now, if it was a large family who you had to spindle for. This without considering dyeing clothing, imagine having picky teenagers like we sometimes have today? Just kidding, I was once a picky teenager too.
I'm not stating we have to make our own clothing, you can if you want, but, I think we should consider the process, time, care it takes and used to take (even more before) of what it was to be a mother, a wife, a helper. Use your time wisely.
Psalm 90:12 says: Teach us to number our days,that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Live for God.
1 Peter 2:16 says As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Shalom

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