What if you were asked to give up your greatest dreams for the benefit of others, knowing that your abilities to make those dreams come true far exceed what anyone else could contribute? Mother is gone, and now it falls to Prissy to take on the role of the woman of the house. Priscilla Warner is a girl of high ambitions, and, in secret, she dreams of greatness beyond the confined sphere God has given her. With a household of rambunctious brothers, an aloof but genius father, and a new baby sister to manage, how will she ever find the time to reach her full potential? She wants to make something of herself and show her disinterested father what “only a girl” can do. But greatness always comes at a cost.

Prissy does possess God-given talents, but her dreams to advance these talents are rooted in selfish ambition. While she tirelessly pursues her dreams without her father’s knowledge, the children left in her care sense abandonment. The more she pursues her own dreams, the more she leaves her siblings empty and destitute of the fulfillment they desperately need. Her hunger for greatness and the desire to prove her father wrong lead her to neglect her greatest calling of her womanly duty. Through heartbreaking trials, Priscilla finds that it is not only what we do that can harm others, but even more so, what we do not do that can lead to the most disastrous results (James 4:17).

Will Priscilla keep chasing the world’s idea of success, or will she finally learn that a woman “who fears the LORD, she shall be praised” (Proverbs 31:30)?

If you are a daughter, a sister, or a mother, may you be inspired to live out these counter cultural truths in such a way that others who see these virtues in you say, “Many daughters have done well, but you excel them all” (Proverbs 31:29).