I’m thinking of a particular woman. When she is feeling energetic, creative and loving, she desires to help people have a good time. She wants to help everyone around her have fun. She is high on life and wants to help others experience that exuberance, too.
But, when she is not feeling so energetic, creative or loving, she descends to a dark place. She is unhappy. Burdened with sadness. Discontent. Instead of helping others to have fun and enjoy the high of life, she helps them descend to a low place with her.
I don’t pretend to know all I need to know. I am not a psychiatrist, counselor, or therapist of any kind. But, I know this. I know that God created woman to be a helper. It is a woman’s nature to help. A woman is constantly helping — to the good or the bad. To build up or tear down. With discipline and restraint, or without. With discernment, or without. With patience or impatience. To meet the real needs of others or to meet her own perceived needs.
For the sake of others, we women do well to recognize and accept our identity. We are unique creations of God lovingly shaped to be helpers for men and, therefore, our world. We are helpers by nature. We cannot help but help. The question is, how will we choose to help? To what end will we help? Will we exhibit self-discipline and restraint, or will we do whatever we want whenever we want? Will we withhold our help when others need it? Will we overwhelm others with the help we feel like giving when they do not need it?
Will we let our feelings set the course for our actions? Or will we pause to think about what we are doing and why?
Is it all about us as we insist on helping our way? Or is it all about serving God by helping others His way?
It does make a difference. It matters.
A Drug Named Ella
Posted in Commentaries of others, Life issues, tagged abortion, birth control, drug, health, Planned Parenthood, women's issues on November 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Studies in England show that not only is Ella embryo toxic, but it also causes birth defects and starves the baby to death if taken five days after sexual intercourse. The abortion industry and the FDA, reports Students for Life of America, is apparently hiding the truth about Ella.
Here are the hidden facts:
Students for Life of America reports that the FDA voted unanimously not to inform women that Ella causes abortion. It also refused to consider clinical trials on whether it causes birth defects, even though evidence suggests that it does.
For more information, Google or Bing Students for Life of America, National Right to Life, or Lutherans For Life.
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