The Lace and Lessons Club
A Sasspoint Village Story by Anita T. Kumeh
Every second Saturday, the women of Sasspoint Village met in the church lounge for what the younger ones called “Fashioned in Faith.”
Miss Thelma led the group, her pearl earrings swaying like punctuation marks of wisdom.
“Now, darlings,” she began, smoothing her lace blouse, “if your tone can’t be prayed through before breakfast, it shouldn’t be spoken before coffee.”
A ripple of giggles. Then silence.
“Love your husbands,” she continued, “even when they rearrange your pantry. That’s sanctification, not sabotage.”
Lani raised her hand timidly. “Miss Thelma… what if I don’t feel like being kind?”
“Then,” Miss Thelma smiled, “be obedient before you’re emotional. Feelings catch up to faith eventually.”
The room exhaled—a mix of conviction and comfort.
By the end, the younger women weren’t just learning homemaking; they were learning heart-keeping. Miss Thelma closed her notebook, winked, and said,
“Now go home and make holiness look attractive—without a single sermon, just good behavior and clean counters.”
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” Titus 2:3-5 (ESV)
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