The ideal place to learn wisdom is the home. Charm and beauty tips abound, but to find real help-to be competent in home, community and business-there is no better place to look than the Word of God. To achieve happiness, right character and success, women need down-to-earth advice to help them learn concrete lessons they don't need illusions. Timeless wisdom comes from God, not from talk shows and trash TV.

Wisdom is not just timeless it takes time. I have since come to realize that this passage is not the description of a woman who has had it all together from the start, but of a woman who has grown in character and spiritual maturity through life's experiences. Years ago, when I was a young wife and mother, I read this chapter for the first time and thought: Who is this superwoman? I'm not like that! These priorities may sound simple, but they are not always easy to follow. Proverbs 31 helps the process because it clarifies our priorities for us: God, family and career or community. The advice in the 31st chapter of the book of Proverbs, which talks about this supermom of old, is just as relevant today as it was then, because wisdom from God is timeless. Women have been struggling with priorities and time management for millennia. Sounds like today's supermom, doesn't it? Actually, this wife, mother and pillar of the community was described nearly 3,000 years ago in the Bible. Imagine a busy woman running a household, rushing to work, making business decisions, juggling meal planning and shopping, and volunteering her time for worthwhile causes, while radiating cheer to her children and charm to her husband.

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