A Moment to Meditate

  And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” – Genesis 2:18 (NKJV) Simply because I don’t know her, I can’t say I agree with all the theological perspectives of Maggie Elias. But someone posted a reel of hers on their FB page, and in that particular reel, she nailed it. She said that men were like umbrellas. By design, they are called to protect their wives and children from the rain and the sun. Without her umbrella over her, the woman would get unpleasantly soaked or burned. The umbrella, on the other hand, is designed to handle the elements. It’s waterproof and the sun doesn’t harm it the same way. “The man is called to be the umbrella,” Elias says, “but the woman is called to hold it up. The umbrella can’t do his job if the woman doesn’t do hers.” She went on to say that the heavier the umbrella, the more elements it’s designed to withstand, the stronger the woman needs to be to support it. In h...

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  - Genesis 2:15-17 (NKJV)   One time, Jen and I were at a homeschool conference, and we went to a breakout session led by a mother of ten boys. That wasn't a typo. TEN boys. Not just ten children, either. Ten BOYS. She mentioned that to say her home was a constant crazy house of hyperactive energy was an understatement. We in the audience all felt for her.  But then she had an interesting perspective on the relative energy exhibited by the average boy versus the average girl. She claimed it was by God's design. How else was the boy supposed to grow up and be the kind of man who could go to work for 8-10 hours a day, then come home, play with the kids, help them wi...