When I first dived in to Chapter 2 of Captivating, I was reminded of two stories that I remembering countless times as a child: the creation story and Cinderella. From a very early age I learned that God made Eve to be different than Adam – to be his “help meet.” I also learned that sometimes you have to work hard until you reap a great reward (the ball) so that some day your prince will come!
John grabbed me when he said that “The desires of a woman’s heart and the realities of a woman’s life seem an ocean apart.” So we want to be swept off our feet, while we know that life isn’t all fancy balls and glass slippers. (Wow, what a heavy responsibility I suddenly feel for trying to teach my 21 month old daughter how to weigh desire vs. reality as she grows up! YIKES!)
Going back to that word I remember many Sunday school teachers using: “Help meet.” How funny that sounds even today! My husband never calls me his “help meet.” My dad never referred to my mom as his “help meet.” So this is the first occasion I’ve had to learn that the original word was ezer kenegdo: literally a "lifesaver alongside you." WOW. That's a lot to live up to.
What's also a little to much for me was the authors' assertion that woman was God's piece de resistance. I don't think just because woman was made after man, that she is any better than- or any improvement on man.
On the other hand, my voice shouted out a loud "AMEN" when it read how we can "[lose]ourselves in work and worry." ::SIGH::
Okay, to summarize:
1. Beauty is powerful
2. Beauty says "all shall be well"
3. Beauty invites
4. Beauty nourishes
5. Beauty comforts
6. Beauty inspires
7. Beauty is transcendent
. . . . . Most of these characteristics are things that women are naturally attuned to do. It's part of our design.
Hmmmm..... Here's hoping this book really DOES get better.
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- Larissa
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3 comments:
It does - chapter 6. :)
Yes, I agree with Heather. I'm loving 7 and 8 right now. I enjoyed the meaning of help meet too.
"What's also a little to much for me was the authors' assertion that woman was God's piece de resistance. I don't think just because woman was made after man, that she is any better than- or any improvement on man."
When she says that, I don't believe she is saying that women are better than men, but Icing on the cake if you will.
Icing is meant to be soft, beautiful, sweet... It stands on top of the cake, a firm foundation, perhaps the man, Jesus, the Cake for the Icing of church.
Sometimes the Icing can become hard and brittle, or too soft and loses its place on the cake and the form it was meant to have. It is not better than the cake, nor the cake better than the icing. But without Icing, what is Cake? And what is Icing without Cake?
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