What is the true definition of less?…..the one I think is more appropriate in describing my thoughts reads from the dictionary as “of lower rank and importance”. You may wonder why I picked that one and my reasons are simple….today I cry out against tradition and culture that reduces the psyche of special beings and had sold them a lie! These same traditions are hated in the core of our being but are celebrated on the outside in order to maintain status quo so we don’t appear to be different and as such ‘unsubmitted to the authority placed upon us’…..today I ask WOMEN why we settle for less.
The Bible says in Genesis 1:27-28 “…in the image of God he created ‘them’; male and female he created them. Then God blessed them and said, Be fruitful….multiply…fill the earth….govern it…” and He saw that it was good! In chapter 2:18 God decided to address the Physical Man’s need for companionship when he thought to himself that “it is not good for the (Physical Man) to be alone. I will make a Helper suitable for him”….so the Lord made a Physical Woman and brought her to the the Physical Man. Did that in anyway negate her first commission in creation? Absolutely not!!
I have read these parts of scripture more times than I can count, especially in my quest to understand a generation of Women who have decided that the entirety of who they are created to be can be relegated to the background, while they wade through life enduring the pain of performing at less than optimal at who they truly are. At the time we were first created as spiritual beings we were given the same commission as the one similar to us, because together we are the fullness of God; but, in the face of creating us as separate physical beings we appear to have forgotten the reason why we were created in the first place! I have met so many women who have tremendous capacity for greatness on the inside but choose to shrink back so they may follow the traditions set and be seen to be doing what is expected of them.
So I think to myself, is it better to be called Female instead of Woman so we can get our heads back to the true reason why we were created? Will that remind us to ‘be fruitful, to multiply, to fill the earth, to govern it’ without calling it Women’s Liberation, Girl Power or some absurd euphemism that makes a mockery of who we truly are? I sat and watched the life of Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela in the last couple of days and swung between admiration for his singlemindedness of purpose regardless of the challenges and/or victories he faced, and a sick feeling in my stomach at the monumental waste that stares me in the face daily when I look at the ‘man in the mirror’ living at less than optimal value.
So Today…..I Call the ‘Mirror Man’ FEMALE …..because I need to be reminded that though the Woman may have physical limitations that will become dust at her end; the one created by God in His image and after His likeness has No Limitations! The breath of life that gave the Physical Being a soul can only experience it’s fullness if it spends more time with the Female and not the Woman.
Today I’m looking at the Me in the Mirror and asking her to become Female again!
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