Friday, December 17, 2004
Pay close attention. I will say this only once.

We live is a post feminist era. An era where the top jobs in the country are held by women. Think PM, Speaker of the House and Telecom CEO. But the question must be asked what good has feminism done us? Sure we can get good educations, careers and can be economically independent. It has also meant that we don’t have to marry, have children or stay at home fulltime. It interested me as I listened to the radio this morning to here a women say ‘if I don’t get a ring and a proposal this Christmas I am leaving’! Well why would a man marry you if he is getting all the perks and none of the responsibilities. You wash his socks, cook his tea and even have his babies and he doesn’t have to commit himself to you in any legal or public way. Men have committed and continue to commit terrible sins against women in this post-feminist age. But I think we have made it worst for ourselves. We move in with a man and are often left holding baby.

Women have a tremendous capacity to love and be loved. This love makes them great mothers and wives, giving themselves to their husbands and children self-sacrificially. This capacity to be loved often leaves a woman with a void in her heart if it is not fulfilled. Women often seek to full this void with the love of a man. This love can be pure and Christ-like or it can be dominating and oppressive. Because society no longer requires that a man and women should marry before living together, a women, who seeking to fulfil to this void can find herself in a difficult situation.

Lets not fill the void with a man’s love until we have filled it with Christ’s. Let's not have babies without a marriage certificate. Let's never allow a man to raise a hand to us in anger. Lets not juggle 3 kids and a full-time job just because we can.

I believe that a woman with a loving and affectionate husband who embraces his headship can blossom and bloom no end. I also believe that women are crying out for loving leadership in an age where men are becoming too passive or too aggressive. I am not trying to say that women are not sinners because they are. But love her and lead her and care for her and I believe that the returns will be tenfold. We can be emotional and grumpy characters and hard to love at times but love anyway. I am thankful that I can speak of this love firsthand but many can’t.


Anita posted at 11:36 pm