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One of the best studies I have ever come across for the Christian wife and mother is a study on the Proverbs woman a pastor's wife put together for their web site.
This is a study on Proverbs 31 - Lessons on "God's Virtuous Woman". It has been given over the years in several Baptist churches and was always deemed a great help by those involved. This study covers Proverbs 31, Woman of Virtue, Woman of Trust, Woman of Energy, Woman of Beauty, Woman of Stewardship, Woman of Service, Woman of Preparedness, Woman of Prudence, Woman of Love, and Woman of Praise.
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Titus 2:3-5 (KJV)
The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness,
not false accusers,
not given to much wine,
teachers of good things;
That they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands,
to love their children,
To be discreet,
chaste,
keepers at home,
good,
obedient to their own husbands,
that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Mother is a Gardener
by
Marjorie Cooney
Mother is a gardener, planting precious seeds.
Sowing for the Master in loving, tender deeds.
Planting seeds of kindness, charity and truth.
Sowing for the harvest, in days of tender youth.
Mother is a gardener; God directs her hands.
Waiting for the reaping -- led by His commands.
Fair flowers richly blooming, weeding them with care.
Seeing them develop into virtues sweet and rare.
Mother is a gardener -- fruitful, year by year.
Gaining satisfaction in that which she holds dear,
Mother's a true gardener -- her seeds grow up to be
Fairest flowers of character throughout eternity.
On Building a Great Marriage
by Anne Ortlund
(Building a Great Marriage [Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1985] page 48-49)
A while back a woman who'd been voted "Mother of the Year" was being interviewed on television.
Said the MC, "Who's the boss in your home?"
"My husband is," she said quickly.
The MC asked with a snicker, "And who decided that?"
She answered immediately, "I did!" And the audience laughed.
But who else could have? The right kind of submission is always a voluntary thing. It can't be demanded by the husband! In a godly marriage nobody demands rights; that would spoil it all. Each insists on the best for the other, and goes to the utmost lengths to get it.
But the crux of God's plan is the husband's leadership. There is that ultimate point where he's to make final decisions...The husband listens to her viewpoint with the most earnest, sensitive consideration, but then there's that lonely place of his own "Oval Office".
Sometimes he'll make mistakes; that's the pain of being president. Sometimes she'll know with all her heart that he's wrong; that's the pain of being vice-president...
But the offices must be left as God intended them. If the relationship really does picture Christ and His Church, then the wife can no more say, "I refuse to submit to my husband" than the Church can say, "I refuse to follow Christ"!
Patchwork Marriage
by
Bill Ashworth, in Home Life
I got my marriage out today
To look at it again,
I hadn't looked in quite a spell-
Just do it now and then.
It's so much like a patchwork quilt,
With patches not a few!
Some patches large, some patches small,
Some patches old, some patches new.
Each patch brings back to memory
Some unkind word or deed,
By which we've learned to give and take,
And love with greater heed.
I pray the time will never come
When we patch it up no longer,
For it seems that where the patches are,
The fabric is much stronger.
Real Mothers
Author Unknown
Real Mothers don't each quiche;
they don't have time to make it.
Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils
are probably in the sandbox.
Real Mothers often have sticky floors,
filthy ovens and happy kids.
Real Mothers know that dried playdough
doesn't come out of shag carpets.
Real Mothers don't want to know
what the vacuum has just sucked up.
Real Mothers sometimes ask "why me?"
and get their answer when a little voice says,
"because I love you best."
Real Mothers know that a child's growth is
not measured by height or years or grade...
It is marked by the progression of Mama to Mommy to Mom...