# In Pursuit of Virtue

Language: en  
Author: —Judith Yoder  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, November/December 2010, Number 6  
Source pages: 34  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/in-pursuit-of-virtue/>
Original PDF: 2010\-11\-Remnant\-2\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, November/December 2010](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2010-11/>)

What is a virtuous woman?  
 Indeed,  
 that is an intensely momentous question\.  
 For how can we attain that which we cannot define?  
 After sundry attempts to attain the ultimate,  
 a conclusion has been reached\.  
 A virtuous woman  
 exudes an aura of quietness and confidence  
 even in the midst of direly vexatious circumstances,  
 because she knows she is in God’s perfect will\.  
 She is not afraid to stand  
 alone  
 or to be  
 “different”  
 if it glorifies God\.  
 She does not heap up for herself  
 the tawdry tinsel  
 of this world,  
 nor help others build empires to self\.  
 She realizes that there is a time to speak  
 and a time to be silent,  
 and is not found guilty of empty babblings\.  
 She will not plague people  
 with long\-winded eulogies of her accomplishments,  
 aspirations,  
 antiques,  
 figments of her imagination,  
 or grousing about her illnesses\.  
 She whines not, neither does she flirt\.  
 Her wisdom is boundless,  
 her tact and endurance indeed astounding,  
 and your likelihood of meeting her is virtually nil\.

Why?  
 Because we have slipped into a  
 mindless,  
 spineless  
 torpor\.  
 We have become quite imbalanced\.  
 One extreme  
 is completely mealy and wobbly\-souled,  
 the other,  
 odiously brazen\.  
 We are in dire need of young women who will abstain  
 from being bedizened slaves to fashion and public opinion  
 and rise to resolute maturity\.  
 Let us be totally dedicated to seeking God\.

For only in seeking Him  
 Is true virtue and equilibrium found\.