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  "Wise Women Build Homes Motherhood’s Lasting Influence Article by  Scott Hubbard Editor, desiringGod.org Subscribe Apple Spotify “Do you ever remember your mom helping you put your clothes on?” The question came from my wife, a mother of two young boys who have not yet mastered the art of getting dressed. I thumbed through the files of those early years and came up blank, the thousands of pant-pull-ups and shirt-put-ons lost to conscious memory. My wife came up blank too. It was a humbling moment, as we imagined our boys, thirty years from now, remembering almost nothing of these everyday routines. It was also a moment — and they seem to come often these days — that put motherhood in a new and hallowed light. “The wisest of women builds her house,” Solomon tells us ( Proverbs 14:1 ) — and house-building, I am learning, is both beautiful and forgettable. Essential and often unnoticed. One of the world’s most important tasks, and one of the most easily overlooked. Clothin...