Valuing the Genders

I don't really consider myself a feminist as I understand the term, but I believe in the value of women and I believe our culture still has significant growth potential as far as it relates to valuing women and femininity. Sometimes I am grieved by certain facets of the feminist movement because in my experiences, it often seems to try to make women and men the same more than equal. Sometimes, it seems to promote more of a seemingly ambiguous gender rather than celebrating all that makes us women and men. I don't believe women can do anything men can do and I don't think they need to. We each have different purposes and different strengths and I want us to celebrate the uniqueness of our genders becasue we are each made in God's image. I think we get a more complete picture or understanding of our Creator when we come together and work together and honor and value one another and our differences. Even to the extent that our understanding of God is limited as our understanding of the opposite sex is limited.

For women only (and those who love them):
I am trying to learn to embrace more of what makes me a woman. Specifically, the monthly hormone flucuations and how they effect moods and even my pattern of thinking. I had a wise friend once tell me she began tracking and really watching her mood swings because she was convicted about learning how to control herself better during PMS. She noticed that she had a tendency to be much more irrational besides being emotional and grumpy and agitated and depressed. She wanted to better learn how to handle herself during the times that are most difficult. I decided to do the same thing. I really have learned a lot about myself. I've done a little research on PMS and PPMD and different natural remedies in hopes to help me better manage myself while also allowing myself room to deal with the mood swings. It's not that I want to rid myself of them, as it's part of who I am. I want to manage it in an effort to grow as a person and as a woman. It's a unique challenge to women.