Worth

"So, how's Margie doing since her wedding?

"She's doing well."

"I heard she and Harold are counting the months until the baby's due. How long before the blessed event?"

"Six and a half months. They are busy getting the nursery ready and collecting baby things."

"I suppose with both of them working full time and all, but this is their first child. Has she made arrangements for day care?"

"Well, no, she hasn't..."

"It may seem early, but finding quality day care is difficult these days. She needs to get her name on the list."

"She and Harold have decided that she'll be one of those stay at home moms."

"What? With her college degree? She's so smart, and all of her training! What a waste."

*This is the recreation of an overheard conversation, but it has taken place in many locations across the country in the last fifty years.

Worth? Value? Waste? Of course in the scriptures we are told what a worthy woman is in Proverbs 31:10-31. That is a go to verse and of late I've heard/read many twistings of that Proverb.

This isn't about that Proverb. It's about the state of the union. Again, I'm an 'asker of questions' and people can draw their own conclusions.

How do we assign value and worth? Does value and worth change with the times? In our current society is a person only valuable if they have a "job, a paycheck and a title"? Do these articles actually make us worth more?

I have things in my possession that to most everyone else they are worthless. To me, however they are priceless. Why are we so blind, constantly selling our future for vapor and ashes?

Psalms 139:14 "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15) My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16) Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them."