And... so... I've stepped away from my blog to observe and continue to ponder the question of why women can't join hands together in sincere friendship. I have no answers... but, wish with all of my might that girls and women could learn to be friends... to love each other and accept each other unconditionally. The power we would gain from this... is mind boggling. By power, remember, I mean... the power to change the world.
If we women would look at the man's world for just a mome. Men are not emotional beings, persay... but, yet, they are capable of deep friendships with one another. They accept each other at face value and unconditionally. I don't believe I have ever heard a man say "he is so fat" or "he really needs a face lift" or "did he look in the mirror before he left home"! Nor have I ever heard another man put down a man's decision to become a stay at home dad, or another man's opinion, or another man's bank account. Men are capable of just accepting men for who they are. If... for some reason they can't... I guarantee that there is a female behind the collapse of that friendship.
In the same breath... I have heard men put women down for gaining weight or looking old or for her opinions. Why could that possibly be? Why do men bond together as one gender... and turn and put down the other gender? Women are the opposites... we put our own gender down and turn our backs on each other and then... accept what men say about us. Hummmmm!!! This is just not acceptable to me. But, yet... by turning our backs on each other, putting each other down, not celebrating each other's successes and by not accepting each other unconditionally... we give men the permission to continue to silence us, to put us down, and to treat us no better than second rate citizens. We are so much better than that. We were designed to bring harmony to a world that is unsettled. But, until we find harmony within our own gender... we will never bring harmony to our families, to our communities, to our churches, and most definitely... not to our world.
Example... if women of all races, colors, and creeds... and bank accounts... would have gathered together and celebrated Lizzie Jennings in 1854, Irene Morgan in 1946 and Rosa Parks in 1955... civil rights could have... and would have ended in 1854!!! From 1854 to 1955? REALLY??? And do you see... one female in 1854, 1946, and I do believe there were actually 3 in 1955!! That was one female... with a dream... a need to make the world a better place. To eliminate the injustice. Take a mome... and imagine... if females would have put their voices with the one voice... how very, very powerful it would have been. We do have a voice... and we want to be heard. Only... it's because we don't celebrate each other's voice and join it that we are silenced. We allow men to squelch our voice... because there is no other woman to support what we have to say. Why is that? Why is this so hard for us to do???
I, for one... believe ALL women are FABULOUS!!! We are unique, complicated... and have this undeniable heart that can put to rest all of the world's unrest. If we would celebrate one another unconditionally... we just may find ourselves with a woman as President. After all, we can multi-task, solve problems, we have a backbone and can stand firm in our convictions, we do have the ability to listen when we aren't self-involved, we can be feminine... and as strong as steel. It's our time, ladies... but, we have work to do within our own gender. We need to turn to the Bible and hear what God is asking of us. Don't get wrapped up in the Adam and Eve story... as the devil worked through Eve. But... God won because Mary bore His Son. Focus on that story... as that is the heart of what God is asking of us. Celebrate each other... remember the fruits of the spirit... and nurture those fruits. Our hearts... are fabulous!
"I may not be perfect, you should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God." 1Peter 3:4
