Womanhood

Perhaps the measure of our godly womanhood isn’t the ease in our season or the hardship, but, rather, the holiness it’s bringing about in our lives.

This column is me trying to encourage you to see womanhood, not as a tiny, segmented box that we all have to fit into, but a gift from God that’s intricately woven into his story in creation.

We can break free. We can walk by the truth of the Scripture and leave the culture baggage right there on the shelf.

We have a choice. We can rely on the sword of Truth, or on the sword of an old-school propaganda technique.

We’re so used to battling out the minutiae of woman’s identity. But we can’t understand that apart from mankind’s broader calling from creation.

We want to have a home that is by the Book. We are also children of the twenty-first century who are trying to learn to separate our twenty-first-century cultural baggage from what’s actual God-breathed wisdom.

It’s been quiet on the blog lately. This fall brought two speaking engagements (a new thing for me), my fifth year of teaching, a new job for my husband, and life with a toddler. But I’m back to share a few thoughts. And I’m trying hard not to apologize for being away. I love writing here, and I love that there are people who want to read what I write. But you guys know that I love my three-dimensional life more. So I won’t apologize. Which is hard for me; not apologizing. And I know I’m not the only one…

Wifehood, motherhood, and homemaking are not the beginning and end of my identity. While important, I am allowed to have other gifts and callings.

The phrase “biblical womanhood” is often a sweet Jesus Juke that silences the discontent that could lead us to the Cross.

We must base our understanding of meritorious womanhood on the Gospel that applies to real women.