In this episode we explore what happens when we are broken in Spirit, forgetting our worth, forgetting our value to our family and to society as a whole – a true travesty.
For too long women have been oppressed, without a voice, and the chains that hold us are similar to an undertow not visible on the surface, but keep pulling us under.
The centuries’-old undertow reaches deep and wide and has deep roots in …
* Not equal rights
* Not equal pay
* Men can dictate our lives, still exists in many countries
* Boys preferred over girls for a long time, like in China during the one-child policy where boys were preferred
* Women not allowed to do things men do, still to this day in things like sports or joining the armed forces
* Being called the weaker sex, when in fact we are the most powerful and influential of the sexes
So we are coming from behind due to long-standing norms, even though we’re the ones birthing nations, birthing all men.
We must hold on to and fight for our God-given power… not with violence but with love, with perseverance, with commitment, and with faith.
We mustn’t lose our heads, our focus, our purpose, our destiny… everything that makes us women.
Too often we may just get bogged down with life’s circumstances, and it feels like we’re at the whim of every storm, tossing us about until we finally break.
And what happens then when we break is that we can’t hold what life and its challenges bring to us, including all the joys of life.
It’s one thing when men break, turning their backs on their responsibilities and commitments, but usually we pick up the slack. But if WE break, the world itself will fall apart where we stand… starting with our families, our children.
We must stay alert, and help each other rise and become (and stay) enlightened as to our power, and responsibility, starting in our homes, and from our homes as best we can even in our imperfections.
Our men may falter, fall asleep and forget their power and responsibility, but we do not have to join them. They can choose their level of commitment to be as God intended them to be, and most men do, I am witness of that, from examples of men in life, like my amazing son-in-love (as Zig Ziglar would say)!
There are prisons in these United States of America full of women. What happened to their families, what happened to them, what broke them?
There are approximately 219,000 incarcerated women in the US according to a November 2018 report by the Prison Policy Initiative, and the rate of incarceration of women in the United States is at a historic and global high, with 133 women in correctional facilities per every 100,000 female citizens. The United States is home to just 4% of the world's female population, yet the US is responsible for 33% of the entire world's incarcerated female population.
How are we helping each other to not go in this direction, starting with our young girls, and our boys too?
Marianne Williamson’s A Woman’s Worth, which I read 30+ years ago, is a beautiful reminder of who we are as women.
Let us not forget this… the consequences are devastating and far-reaching.
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A Woman’s Worth by Marianne Williamson
https://www.amazon.com/Womans-Worth-Marianne-Williamson/dp/0679422188/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657573644&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Fatherless-America-Confronting-Urgent-Problem/dp/0465014836/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1657573703&sr=1-2-catcorr
