Prov. 31:10-31

1) I always think of my late Aunt Faye, as we read this at her funeral around Christmas some years ago now. 2) I suppose one could call this proto-feminist. Please note that it frames the opening chapters of Dame wisdom, but now in a more domestic key.Still, this woman does engage in some public activity. 3) Woman of worth/capability could also be of valor, or even Warrior woman, as in the description of Jephthah. 4) How do you regard the retrograde counterattack on women's rights in our culture, especially in the religious right but also in the chastened "have it all" believer sin no limits? 5) How do you work with this text and other biblical pieces such as household code material in the epistles? 6) v. 25 is worth a sermon alone. One could use this to speak on the youthfulness mania of cosmetics and plastic surgery. 7) I like the praise of the husband at v. 29 8) v. 28 could be blessed as well as happy.