powerful womanhood

Spiritual resource to share: timeless ideas on true womanhood




Because we are celebrating National Women's History Month and, today, we are celebrating Internnational Woman's Day, I'd like to join in by sharing some thoughts about womanhood.   I go to the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Here are some of my finds:

The ideal woman corresponds to Life and to Love. In divine Science, we have not as much authority for considering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of Deity.

Eddy's take on Eve (of the Adam and Eve story in Genesis) is radical. Recognizing Eve's ability to see and admit the mistake she made, Eddy points out a most important point: Eve is first to abandon the belief of sensuous life and to understand our spiritual origin.

She [Eve] has already learned that corporeal sense is the serpent. Hence she is first to abandon the belief in the material origin of man and to discern spiritual creation.

So what resources do we have that will empower a woman ( as well as a man)?

God is the only power. And we can reflect Her in many ways. My all time favorite Bible verses are in Proverbs 31. This chapter has a wealth of resources we all can draw on to understand what it means to be powerful and has defined the virtue and strength of woman thoroughly!

Excerpts from Proverbs 31: Verses 10-31

10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

12 DEPENDABLE: She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 SKILLED: She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 RESOURCEFUL: She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 FULL of CARE: She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 ENTREPRENEURIAL: She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17 STRONG: She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 INSIGHTFUL: She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 PREPARED: She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 COMPASSIONATE: She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 FEARLESS and DIGNIFIED: She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 BEAUTY: She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23 COMPANIONED WITH NOBLE IDEAS/IDEALS: Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 EXCELLENCE: She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 CONFIDENT: Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 WISE: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 KIND and INDUSTRIOUS: She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 ACKNOWLEDGED: Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her....Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

What are your thoughts on true womanhood?

Here are some select readings on True Womanhood taken from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's classic textbok on spirituality and healing: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Proverbs 11: 16

Picture taken from care.org's website highlighting their campaign on empowering women.


Proverbs 31: 10-31

Ruth 1: 3-5, 8, 14, 16-18, 22

Ruth 2: 1, 2, 5-8, 11, 12

Ruth 3: 10, 11

Ruth 4: 13-15

II Peter 1: 5-8, 10

2 John 1 : 1-6, 8

Phil 4: 1-9



from Science and Health

516: 21

517: 8

508: 13

246: 11-16

57: 4-11, 15

239: 5-10

63: 5-27

514: 10-19

28: 32

534:18-1

268: 6

533: 21-8

248: 26

200: 16