PRICELESS

Women, what are you worth?  The Bible says that your price if "far above rubies."

I looked up some prices of rubies.  And the exceptional cut rubies are priced anywhere from $3,000 a carat all the way up to $225,000 a carat.  I also looked up conversion charts for carats into pounds and it takes about 2500 carats to make a pound.  Now, if you figure a woman weighs 100 pounds (anything above 100 pounds is just extra!), then she would be 250,000 carats.  So, if you are at the low end of the ruby system, you would be worth $750,000,000!  I can't even figure what you are worth if you were a high end ruby!

Unbelievable, isn't it?  I'm pretty sure that today's society doesn't look at us moms that way.  They think a woman should have a career above all else and, if there is any time left, you could possibly consider a part time spouse, and if there is any time after that, you could fit in 1.5 children.  However, if you possibly do try to fit 1.5 children into this, then you have to let someone else be the caretakers.  After all, wasn't it a popular political figure that said, "it takes a village to raise a child"?  (Let me say, at this point, that I know that there are times when a woman absolutely has to work outside the home....been there, done that.)

A woman who can have children, a husband, a home, a career, and keep all her priorities straight, sure has my applause.

I read an article that said if a stay at home mom was compensated for all her work she would get $138,095 per year.  Personally, I think that's a little low, but it's a start.  And it also stated that a mom that works outside the home should be compensated about $85,939 per year above her paying job.

We moms have to remember that our worth as a mom, outside job or not, is worth millions of dollars in God's eyes.  We have to acknowledge that God thought so much of us that he told us that our price is, well, priceless.

When we see the first wobbly steps, when we see the first toothless grin, when we hear the first time they say ma ma, we know it's priceless.  We see them wave out of the bus window on their first day of kindergarten, we cheer at every ball game, we get hugs for no reason...priceless.  We get to read them bedtime stories, sing, "Jesus loves me", tuck them in and hear them ask God to watch over every single neighbor within a ten mile radius, pray for the cat, the dog and the fish....priceless.  And most blessed of all is when we get to bow our heads together and hear them whisper the invitation of Jesus into their hearts...PRICELESS.

Proverbs 31:10, 28  "Who can find a virtuous woman?  For her price is far above rubies.  Her children arise up, and call her blessed;  her husband also, and he praiseth her."