Let Me Be a Woman—

p. 112 - To be a woman, to be what we were made to be, to belong just where we were made to fit... "The psalms are full of expressions of God's authority and control, of measurement, limitation, direction. Psalm 104, for example, speaks of it: 'Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken... The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which Thou didst appoint for them. Thou didst set a bound which they should not pass... Thou hast made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun to know its time for setting... When Thou sendest forth Thy spirit they are created.'" I'm reminded of the Grand Canyon and all the marvelous landscape I have recently seen during our travels.

p. 118 - "...heirs together of the grace of life." I Peter 3:7

p. 120 - chap. 36 is excellent, but I won't copy it all out here :)

p. 129 - The story of the centurion with the sick servant... his faith... I love it.

p. 134 - "When He made Eve, it was because the Garden of Eden would have been a prison of loneliness for Adam without her. It was not good for him to be alone, and to release him from his prison and bring him freedom and joy He gave him a woman. Eve's freedom and joy was to be in being Adam's complement." This is something that comes to mind when thinking of the issue of polygamy. Does having a co-wife rob a woman of her place as her husband's complement and helper? She has now to share this position. It just doesn't seem like the best, ideal thing, does it? She is fully a wife, and yet can only be part of a complement or a complement part of the time, or something. There are some strange dynamics here.