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I have a deep love and reverence for women. I wanted my girls to be able to live into their intellectual strength, their skill in creating beauty, their love in relationships. In short, I wanted them to fully access their amazing design crafted by God to be excellent in every way. When fully filled with the vision for who they were made to be, they have the power, the nobility of l heart, the reverence for excellence to bring all that is good, light, lovely, right into the world to flourish.
Whenever I have time with one of my girls, I am enriched in every area of my life. In spite of my own imperfections, my girls have become fully actualized as influential women.
The vision I see is this: if women rise to be the gatekeepers, making their homes places of excellence, cultivating love for each other as well as reverence and worship of God, spending personal time teaching and discipling their children, neighbors, friends, keeping them from worshiping the idol of television and serving them through this training and nurture and giving up of her own time, there will be hope.
Then a civilization will be born where the whole culture will be populated with adults who have great souls, a call to the Kingdom of God, a passion to do what is right, a desire to protect the weak, and an honest moral character that is the foundation of right decisions made in politics, medicine, government, media and the arts.
Yes, it requires great personal sacrifice. But in the battle between evil and good, the allegiance between our commitment to our God or our bowing to Satan has always required sacrifice. Evil is never passive and never takes a break–and neither can God’s chosen ones cease to work tirelessly to be about His business.
When women abandon this great and important responsibility, there is a greater tendency for children to become the kind of adults who can be self-centered and self-serving; under-developed and ineffective without intentional training, --Those who can overlook unrighteousness without any pang of conscience—because that conscience has never been developed. They become the kind of adults who can passively let others take responsibility for our government and country--to accept and validate those who would promise the moon even though the moon isn’t available in reality. When a person has no convictions, he cannot operate his life in God’s strength. It is moms who help to develop foundations of righteousness in their children’s souls.
For this gatekeeping to occur there must be hundreds—thousands—of dinners made, laundry loads run, backs scratched and cookies baked. There must be watercolor projects and messes, hikes and games of hide and seek, money spent on wonderful life-giving books and concerts and the theatre. It will not happen in the absence of a cost.
Time spent ministering to our people is time well spent because that investment grants us the door to their hearts. When they are soft to us because we have ministered to their needs, their minds and hearts will be soft to hear our values, our convictions, and our guidance.
Today on my podcast, Joy and I speak of other brilliant and outstanding women throughout history who have made a difference in their world, their time in history. You will want to participate in her course where she teaches about excellent women from past history.
Let’s be those kind of women.
