thanks for womanhood

As I am chilled by the truthful portrait of the treatment of women found in The Swallows of Kabul, my current bite of fiction, I thought it appropriate to praise God for womanhood today. It seems beneficial to be aware of the countless cultures around the world that do not value women and treat them as the image bearers of God that they were made to be. It may also be true that women are not viewed in this proper way in America as well, where most women in the media are bodiced with sexual immorality or fools entranced by pomo feminism. Nonetheless, today I want to dwell on the identity that I have in Christ, created in His image, as a women orchestrated to declare His glory and enjoy Him within the context of my family.


I rejoice today in the calling that I feel to dedicate my life to supporting, respecting, encouraging, submitting to, and loving my husband. I am eager today for the children that we will "bring up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." (Ephesians 6:4) I am eager to serve my family in the often-percieved-as-menial tasks of homemaking that I believe are significantly important. And, I am ready for the ways in which God may choose to use our family to declare His glory and redeem the earth.


May we be emboldened by our gender today and embrace the truth that we are God's creation, however that may flush out in our life circumstances. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:27)