I've started a new book discussion of Through His Eyes: God's Perspective on Women in the Bible by Jerram Barrs at Half-Pint House. I enjoy fresh perspectives on women in the Bible and Barrs has included chapters on some of my favorites: Tamar (Genesis 38), Deborah, and the woman at the well. The first three chapters are dedicated to our first mother, Eve and chapter one focuses on her condition at Creation (Genesis 1:27-28, 2:15-25.)
While I found a lot packed into this chapter, one thing in particular jumped out at me:
"Eve and Adam were created to be significant. We are designed to willingly and gladly choose to be what God has made us to be and to live in love and in moral beauty as he designed us to live, delightedly reflecting his nature in all we do. We have a kind of limited sovereignty over our own lives, mirroring in a little way the infinite sovereignty of God's divine majesty. We are finite history-makers, under God, the Lord of history."
I liked that: "finite history-makers." I believe God has a sovereign plan specifically for my life. But I also believe He has left me plenty of space in which to freely move around - space big enough to create, to love, and to live in ways that are unique to me and glorifying to Him.
Sharing that history is important to me, too, especially with my own girls. I look back at the women in my family and wish I knew more about their lives, their relationships with God, with their husbands, and with their children. I feel a hole because there were so many I didn't know, and if I did know them, often it was in a superficial way. I yearn for the wisdom of my mothers. And, the older I get, the more I wish I had it.
So, that's the main reason why I write...why I write on this blog, write in journals, write essays, poems, stories...I'm writing for my girls, my granddaughters, even my great-granddaughters. I don't have a great burning desire to be published, other than in the hearts of my children. I want them to know what God has done in my life, how He has been faithful over and over again. Ultimately, I want them to know He will be faithful to them, too. My prayer is that maybe my stories, my history-making, will point my girls to God, the Lord of all history.
May we all see our significance and may we be little 'history-makers', living and loving creatively. Blessings.
While I found a lot packed into this chapter, one thing in particular jumped out at me:
"Eve and Adam were created to be significant. We are designed to willingly and gladly choose to be what God has made us to be and to live in love and in moral beauty as he designed us to live, delightedly reflecting his nature in all we do. We have a kind of limited sovereignty over our own lives, mirroring in a little way the infinite sovereignty of God's divine majesty. We are finite history-makers, under God, the Lord of history."
I liked that: "finite history-makers." I believe God has a sovereign plan specifically for my life. But I also believe He has left me plenty of space in which to freely move around - space big enough to create, to love, and to live in ways that are unique to me and glorifying to Him.
Sharing that history is important to me, too, especially with my own girls. I look back at the women in my family and wish I knew more about their lives, their relationships with God, with their husbands, and with their children. I feel a hole because there were so many I didn't know, and if I did know them, often it was in a superficial way. I yearn for the wisdom of my mothers. And, the older I get, the more I wish I had it.
So, that's the main reason why I write...why I write on this blog, write in journals, write essays, poems, stories...I'm writing for my girls, my granddaughters, even my great-granddaughters. I don't have a great burning desire to be published, other than in the hearts of my children. I want them to know what God has done in my life, how He has been faithful over and over again. Ultimately, I want them to know He will be faithful to them, too. My prayer is that maybe my stories, my history-making, will point my girls to God, the Lord of all history.
May we all see our significance and may we be little 'history-makers', living and loving creatively. Blessings.
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Am I too late to get in on this? The book looks really good.
Love the new green look. Very springy!
Holli
I don't have a great burning desire to be published, other than in the hearts of my children.
Forgot to say, that is a beautiful sentence and sentiment.
H
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