Let a wise person listen and increase learning, and let a discerning person obtain guidance. —Proverbs 1:5
I believe there’s a major reason why many older women tend to back away from a mentoring role in younger women’s lives. The younger women don’t want us, they think. If they did, they’d ask.
So younger woman, let me ask you: how willing are you to seek out and receive the involvement of older women in your life?
In His wisdom, God has made a gracious provision you can’t afford to do without. So, seek out an older woman who seems to possess the qualities you’d like to embody one day. Ask if she’d be open to visit with you on occasion, fielding your questions and allowing you to learn from her experiences and— together—from God’s Word.
As your relationship grows, you’ll glean so much from this older woman that you’ll wonder how you ever got along without her friendship, prayers, and input. Hopefully you’ll be inspired to become the older woman in another woman’s life—and to never stop pouring yourself into others as long as you live.
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Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together
©2017 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
This week, seek out an older, godly woman and ask if she’d be open to meeting with you periodically.