Motherhood is a journey many ladies may want to walk. Motherhood is itself birthed in pains, though the sight of the baby is pleasurable. It may be that, perhaps, you are pondering the motherhood path yourself with its pleasures and pains. Or you are a mother seeking encouragement and insights from another’s experience.
… God’s Glory in the Pleasurable Pains of Motherhood
Adultery and idolatry reveal the nature of our allegiance. The one, to our spouse, and the other, to our God. The two are so intertwined that the Bible describes our idolatry as adultery (Jer. 3:8–9; Ezek. 16:32; 23:37; Rev. 2:22). Monogamy and monotheism are entwined because both are a call to fully devote one’s heart to the covenanted ‘other.’
The African concept of Ubuntu, which loosely translates as ‘I am because we are, and because we are therefore I am’ insists that to be human consists in a continual community of being, knowing, and becoming.
William Farrell in his book The Myth of Male Power surveys how the often decried ‘Patriarchal’ system was harder on the man than is commonly acknowledged. He speaks of how men in history have been the dispensable sex, expected to do the most menial works in the harshest of realities, even to the detriment of their health or death, and often not respected or recognized for doing so.
… How Dishonoring the Sabbath Leads to the Disintegration of Society
