Do you have JOY? The only true path to happiness is through Jesus 1st, Others 2nd Yourself last. To the average Jane Doe, this acronym probably sounds like a cutesy way to remember your manners. I have seen many a-proverbs-31-woman overwhelmed, overworked, overwithchilded, and overpatriarched. <-- yea, I made up two words, so what!!?
My fundamentalism became a systematic routine of pleasing others. At the expense of my own health, finances and sanity. Striving to appear a virtuous ruby in a sea of worldy cubic zirconium. A quiet suppression of emotions in order to live a life that I thought was 'pleasing to the saviour.'
I browse other fundamentalist blogs from time to time, and see the smiling faces on the big families. Prim, proper, neat. I often wonder what's behind the smile? Although I don't fault anyone living that type of life, some of those motherduggars are living a sugarcoated lie.
Glad you're back!
ReplyDeleteI used to take Proverbs 31 pretty damned seriously... and look where that led :)
It was so cool to hone in on that lengthy passage of virtue and strength directed to Women Only - no boys allowed! It was so cool in part because very little else was actually directed specifically toward women - it got tiresome to filter all the boys club talk through a woman's sieve.
Damn - I used to really, really like this passage. Now it makes me laugh. Thanks :)
Hmm..virtue & strength..I knew a family that had Prov 31 taped on the fridge. :-)
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