What is Worth While

“This is the great danger……We must love our mothers more than Greek dialects.  If the instinct of daughter, sister, wife, or mother dies our of a college-bound woman, even in the course of a most brilliant career otherwise, the world will forget to lover her; it will scorn her, and justly.  If she does not make her surroundings homelike, wherever she is , whether she be a teacher, artist, musician, doctors, writer, daughter at home, or a mother in her household;  and if she herself is not cheerful and loving, dainty dress, gentle in manner, and beautiful in soul as every true woman ought to be, the work will feel that the one thing needful is lacking,--vivid, tender womanliness,--for which no knowledge of asymptotes or linguistics can ever compensate.  It is better for a woman to fill a simple human part lovingly, better for her to be sympathetic in troubles and to whisper a comforting message into but one grieving ear, than that she should make a path to Egypt and lecture to thousands on ancient Thebes.”

~An extract from What is Worth While written by Mrs. Samuel Linsay  (as quoted in the 1897 edition of the  Three Minute Readings for College Girls.

The Answer...

The silence has lasted far too long. It hasn’t been thanklessness that has hindered my fingers from giving updates. The delay began because I just didn’t’ know how to say it. I thought a lot about how I wanted to break the news. I even wrote down various rough drafts…some of which ended up stranded on a pieces of scrap paper at the bottom of my backpack while others still remain hidden in the back of a composition notebook where I had scribbled out an idea before class. After this first delay it was then the shear torrential momentum of this, my very last quarter in college that swept me along with very little time or energy for anything else. Until now, I haven’t had much energy to think of something clever or to even sit and type one more thing on the computer. So now I will abandon all attempt at cleverness and just say it ….


I got the dietetic internship! The one and only internship that I applied for.
As I have had more time to think about what this honor means for me in the next year, a host of emotions have accompanied the news. Amidst all of the happiness and uncertainty, I can whole-heartedly agree with Ruth Myers, author of 31 Days of Praise when she says…

“Thank You that I can move into the future non-defensively, with hands outstretched to whatever lies ahead, for You hold the future and You will always be with me, even to my old age…and through all eternity.”’

~ Ruth Myers, 31 Days of Praise, Day 5

God has truly been kind!