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Ok!- let's move on to the next verse which is Colossians 3:18, which is pretty similiar to Ephesians 5:22-25 & 1 Corinthians 14:33-37 once you later begin to make connections, & you guys may read text on here that may be familiar when I was talking about the last following scriptures ห꒳ห The verse talks about that in a Christ-centered marriage, openess, trust, and respect is what should be present in a relationship for both husband and wife, not control, abuse, nor inequality. The reason why the scripture means this is because when it comes for a healthy & sacred marriage, it has both parties working with mutural love & respect, protecting and peserving order, and lastly which is a big one here.. having both the husband and wife working together. See, this is the huge reality & the truth of femninism is that it makes women compete with men which does result in division, and I do see this a lot of how many women online always talk down towards men and how they don't value men of how & other horrific things they say about them. Now again, this may come from past experiences and unhealed trauma that may happened in their lives, I do not know- but like I said, this can also be particialy modern and femninist beliefs circulating around for some time now that men are seen as villians when really that's isn't the truth at all. As human beings when God created Adam and Eve, they were both the first humans on Earth sure- but they also both worked together by maintaning the garden of Eden and weren't divided way before the serpent/the devil deciet Even to eat the forbidden fruit which resulted to both Adam and Eve blaming each other before they were banished from the garden. It may seem as werid for me to connect to this story to the modern world is how it's common for a lot of women in this world now to have this idea of thinking of not submitting to their boyfriends who is now going to be their future husbands, or having the fear of losing their own control once they comitting their life to their spouse. Now again, these are the exact reasons why a lot of women now even til this day have the fear of getting married because of those common beliefs floating around social media & movies and TV. I know there may be some of the readers are male readers who would probably tell me this is true since I sometimes hear men online and rare cases in real life where they value having a woman who would work & submit to him until death, this may not be their exact wording but I know this is what men, and I mean truly devour God-fearing men value in a women who he wants to marry. This does make me feel sad in a way I feel sorrow for some women because they have this kind of mindset where they have to prove to a man that she always needs to win by consistent competeing & also how she has trust & power struggles which does result for some women to feel hesitant for marriage as a whole. And unfortunately, this is what femninism is doing to women in the society as the movement gets more progressive and contradictory to God's Truth & sacred teachings, it slowly breaks down & destroys women overtime because of how it quietly drestroys the truth of both gender & traditional roles and expectations. Basically what femninism is to me is a slow drug to women where it basically is a silent killer, and when we rediscover God's own words again, we begin to rebuild what femninity is, and by doing that is how we should value cooperation instead of control, open with trust and wisdom to your spouse or partner, & doesn't feel the need to be dominated in order for a woman to be respected. How a bibicial woman can deal & see this is that she freely shares her own thoughts in an honest manner & doesn't seek the outcome of control & muturally supporting and loving her husband. One thing which stood out to me of this verse & how important it is to me is how it talks about how everything in a healthy Christ-centered relationship must reflect back to God's love, justice, & goodness. Everything already mentioned in Ephesians 5:22-25 would be EXACTLY similiar to what I'm going to say right now, which is why theres already a connection that is being made with this current verse from Colossians, so don't be suprised if I'm mentioning things I said earlier from the blog, ww (´∀｀) So as we already are aware- this part of the verse emphasizes how the wife should submit to her husband once she gets married & how a husbaand should love his wife sacrifically just like what it was said through the last verse. It's even mentioned too that marriage is based on mutural & self-giving love to both parties, again- similiar to what it says from the last scripture. I believe that this is a verse where me and other women who want to get married in the future had to examine because this is what the sacrament of marriage is what truly is, and as someone who isn't married & not have a boyfriend yet, I find it that it is important for me to understand to know before I get married in the future to overall build a healthy everlasting relationship with my future husband once God reveals the right guy แ( ' ⩊ '๐ฆน)แ as femninism sends a 'quiet message' to 'submitting to your husband means you need to be saved or your opporessed' by refusing to compromise and constantly argue to prove you are right, what bibicial femninity does is maintaining a truly bibical relationship which is build by trust, respect, and the main important part.. shared purpose. How this can be achieveable is through listening to others even your spouse, being open to your thoughts and ideas, and more importantly, choosing peace over price (˶แต แต แต˶) Now, this is one of my favourite scriptures to pick based through this whole topic of femninity because of how to me, this verse bibicially emphazises how women and men are designed differently in the image of God & how we are made to be teammates by working together and helping one another instead of being divided and having hatred or grudges aganist each other. This verse doesn't only apply to marriage or romantic relationships, but I do believe this can apply to friendships or any forms of male-female relationships. As modern and femninist views prioritizes on independance instead on interpendance, structure being seen as limitation or lack of freedom, or rejecting traditional gender roles due to fear of inequality, bibicial femninity as a whole focuses on seeing equal dignity but different gender roles, unity instead of competetion, and overall love that is expresses through cooperation, which I think as Christian women we should be setting an exmaple of this which is why I love this bibicial passage based on the topic of femninity, not only through marriage but also other forms through male-female relationships we have in our lives (..◜แด◝..)
Another scripture that you guys may already had seen is another proverb verse which is Proverbs 11:22, & already we are going to see another connection of a different verse which is 1 Peter 3:3-4. Now... (heh!) this verse mentions about how without virtue showing inside of your soul, beauty then becomes worthless or empty. Yes yes- I know this may hurt many people who are reading this, especially when the context & the passage itself of the verse is blunt and harsh, however I am here to break it down through chunks of why it means this way & adding my perpective on this verse I've picked & how we can connect this to femninism and modern beliefs along with femninity (；´∀｀) Anywho- the reason why this verse means the way it is because having physicial outward beauty does not give someone true value. Hmm.. still sounds harsh, does it? Well, let's look at it through again together from a different lens, shall we? ☺︎ Now, I know what I will be mentioning would sound similiar to 1 Peter 3:3-4, but I'm going to mention it again not only for a refresher, but to explain why those two verses do connect to each other. So in the modern world & in the digitial age of social media, beauty isn't something that is treated as valuable only, but it is also seen as something to be praised, rewarded, or promoted. This practice is commonly seen a lot through fashion & beauty influencers and models we know through public media, and yes!- this does have the toll of how it is seen in real life. Now this is the first part of the proverb verse, but we're still are gonna keep on going. Whenever we see beauty trends every month by month, day by day, or maybe perhaps decade by decade since we are all aware beauty standards and trends change drastically, we start to have the feeling of being puressured to look the certain way all because we see our favourite influencer on social media or our model having a certain aesthetic everyone desires to have. And the thing is if you don't follow any of the trends, you feel like your missing our or worse, people would make you feel bad about it. I know from before and now where women would get plastic surgeries that were trendy and dangerous such as a nose job, a boob job, a BBL, skin bleaching, or doing other forms of cosmetic surgeries that are harmful to someone's self-esteem & their physical & spiritual health as well (which I'm sure sadly there are some women who still do this til' this day..) most of these beauty rituals/practices are link to how beauty or worthy the person is to the point it makes a hireachy where people from the public would value them based on their outer apperance & give them the attention for it. But but here is the thing where most people overlook- just cuz someone is pretty by physical appearance, doesn't mean they have a pretty attitude or personality. Yes yes, I know this may upset a lot of people and could cause an uproar, but this is the truth sadly and I can say I see this a lot every single time, and I highly do believe that almost every women in this earth has either experienced someone like this or made observations of situations of this happening. And this isn't me trying to shame anyone or to put them on the spot, rather it's a consistent pattern that I kept on stumbling on every single time whenever I make an observation. What I mean by saying this is that someone can look beautiful but they have a negative mindset or attitude to themselves and other people around them, find unhealthy ways to cope or to seek attention, or to simply not respect themselves or other people around them. And this is what I sadly observed all the time, at my school most of the time, especially with the popular kids or some group of girls I often see inside the girl's bathroom or in hallways. This is where beauty itself has lost it's own value and meaning because of how it isn't supported by it's character of the person, by their personailty, mindset, and their own attitude. Now there was a word that was mentioned in this verse which was discretion. In a sacred & bibicial sense, discretion means simply that a bibicial femninime woman would make good descion making skills, wisdom, temperance/self-control, & present her modesty through her actions & her own behaviour. A constrast of how the modern world views it is how they push out decietful messages such as.. 'Your value to others to others is how you look." or... 'attention = confindence.' By now as Christian women, we should be already aware that this is already the worng kind of message to bring to younger girls & women alike in this world because this is what results to having diffulity of setting up boundaries, & seeking attention & having only your identidy through your apperance alone. This is where things already goes wrong cuz we should be aware by now that looks are decieveing, and what God wants for us as women to showcase our femninity is prioritze on kindness, wisdom, self-respect, and how beauty is much more deeper than physical apperances alone alongside how we should be valuing character over seeking attention from others. And this is what I find interesting this this proverb verse, is that it emphazises on a woman having beauty + virtue together, character as a foundation to showcase her own beauty, & to understand that dignity isn't dependant on physical apperance. And no, this verse isn't shunning women or putting them down in a negative life I've mentioned, but rather this is helping protect and redirect value & dignity & to showcase that we are more than just our apperances alone (˶แต แต แต˶) ‹๐น
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| The whole chapter of Proverbs 31 is a good chapter and sets an example for every women no matter how old or young or what stage of life to read for TRUE bibicial & authentic femninimity. I am going to go over through some Proverb 31 verses later in this blog, but please go on ahead and give it a read if you want to go and explore more of this topic of femninity หแตห |
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Ok, now let's go over another proverb verse which is Proverbs 31:10-18, again- another Proverb 31 verse that is important and essential for femninity (˶แต แต แต˶) it does have the connection to the last proverb verse and the other one I've spoken about earlier, however for this one I'm choosing to go more in depth based on how this has a huge constrast to both femninity and femninism. Now Let's start with the first verse which is Proverbs 31:10 where it talks abouts how a woman of virue is rare based on her respect & how deeply valuable it is. see this is where it's coming from? This is where the connection of Proverbs 11:22 & 1 Peter 3:3-4 comes from of this scripture.What this verse means when it comes to bibicial femninity is that worth comes from a woman's character. As social media such as celebirty and influencer culture keeps on booming, people all around the world including the influencers and the famous celeberities are decieved by believing that worth is measured by attention or how value is based on looks and popularity. This isn't anything that is surprising to me since the social media algorithm always dictates who's account get's to have the large amount of engagement or likes based on who is the prettiest or well attractive based on their outer flesh. I've already made it clear earlier and I am going to say this again- as women, we shouldn't be seeking approval by having our self-worth being dependant on our outer appearance only, cuz the truth is this isn't where we get our true dignity from. What femninity shows a complete opposite, which is where a bibicial femninime woman is being valued based on her integrity, dignity, and her own character. From this, this is where her true self-worth is internal, not external where it's dependant on outer appearance. We have another verse similiar to the last past scriptures which is Proverbs 31:11-12, and these scripture where we are making the connection is Ephesians 5:22-25, Genesis 3:16, & Colossians 3:18. How this is seen through the lenses of bibicial femninity, a woman would support other women and girls alongside her male figures in her life alongside building trust, which is a result of building loyality and a sense of security. The way I can see this in the modern world & somehow through femninism is how it encourages instability in relationships in a way it encourages or I shall say normalizes dishonesty and lack of communication. And unfortunately, I see this happened commonly through friendships no matter through which gender & commonly through romantic & married relationships. As for me since I plan on getting married down the road as my vocation, I want my future hubby to see me built in trust in him through support and loyality based on what these two verses are emphasizing, which I can see what it's lacking through other people's relationships based on why there is no trust being built. Now.. see how these scriptures begin to create a centered theme of this topic? ๐ In order for us as women to build healthy relationships with others with God being present, we should always be bringing a result of peace & reliability by building security, not confusion and disorder. Proverbs 31:13-17 is going to sound already similiar to Proverbs 31:19-20, Proverbs 14:4, & Proverbs 14:4, so therefore I won't go over these scriptures again in order to avoid me sounding repetitive & I'm know you guys reading this are smart & knowledgeable people to know the meaning by reflecting back to the previous scriptures & paragraphs I've mentioned earlier through this blog. Though there is this one last verse verse which is Proverbs 31:18 that has one saying through the passage that is interesting and valuable to say (which I highly reccomend everyone to give it a read หแตห ) When the verse mentions.. 'She sees that her trading is profitable,' it wasn't written in the book of Proverbs for no reason, rather what it is revealing to us as women is how a bibicial femimine shows she is fully aware of what she's doing, & how productive and purposeful she is. I know this already sounds familiar to most of you readers since I mentioned about this from the previous scriptures, but I would go ahead just to explain it breifly of how there is a constrast between modern views and bibicial femninity. When we do our daily tasks whenever if it's chores, schoolwork, job entires, or whatever, we always watse our time or energy by consistently procrastionating and having a lack of direction by not knowing where to begin. Althrough I am guilty of all of these things for myself, it's also is good to identify the contrast of how we are in the world of how we can fix or do better with them. From the lenses of bibicial femninity, a femninime woman would value her own growth & uses her time wisely and productively by seeking meaningful results altogether, in short- she invest her time on things of what truly matters (ห•͈ ◡ •͈ห) when we as Christian women start to show our awareness and valubility of our own productivity, this is where we bring alongside serving purpose over comfort, and when we start to develop a mindset of 'How can I grow, build, & contribute to others?,' this is where we develop a purposeful living which I personally think that's what the Lord wants for us to see •แด•
As were moving on to the next proverb 31 verse, I want to talk about this one in particular I've purposefully chosen which is Proverbs 31:8-9, which to me the verse does speak volumes for itself which is why I'll be going over it with you guys and how it connects with femninity. In case if you don't know or need a better understanding of the context of this verse, what it simply means is that we should always be speaking up for those who are vunerable and defend those who are mistreaded or weak. For me personally, these two verses does reflect on me maily because of how I always would stand up for those who are the needy or are being mistreated, which is what the virtue of justice truly means. I remember a couple of months ago through last summer and early fall, my friend and I were speaking up for the behalf for the little girls based on a fashion modeling magazine & on social media who were being sexually exploited and abused from the adults who are both running the magazine & the social media account & the little girls own parents who abuse or exploit their own children to do things no children should do. We both find sorrow and disgust of how the adults who are supposed to safeguard these precious children are yet exploiting them online and putting them into dangerous situations that no child should experienced, & how not much people took the courage to speak up for the behalf for these children and protest why exploiting children isn't OK. We are both aware the account & magazine took place in the different country, but we didn't allow it to be a hindering block to spread the world & seek justice for those little girls. I know people wouldn't speak up due to the fear of them getting themselves in trouble or avoiding conflict in this day of age of this shattered world unfortunately, or how there are some people in the world who carry the mindset of 'it's not my business or my problem, so why should I care?' When we start to develop this kind of mindset where we are avoiding situations where people are in serious danger or are getting hurt, this is where victims aren't being protected or in risk of getting themselves hurt or killed. I don't blame people for not speaking up but rather stay as bystanders, but when we remain as bystanders and not heros to these victims, we aren't making a difference to stop certain situations like this which is what this proverb verse is emphasizing. I know this is a sensitive topic for those who may had witnessed or had experienced this, but when we report issues by speaking up and helping others in a wise way where it can save somebody, this is where we can truly create a difference where kidness becomes protective when we speak up for the behalf of others, especially for other women and girls ♡ now this is the first-half of the verse, the second half where it mentions '...defend the rights of the poor and neady.' is a very BIG one where we live in a world sadly where people would overlook injustice and be decentisized by focusing only on themsleves. I'm not saying this to look down or to shame others, but rather this does have a connection to Titus 2:3-5 & to real life everyday situations. When me and my friend had spoken up against the exploitation of the younger models, we decide to offer them support and help for other people online to sign a petition to address the issue and have people aware of what those account is posting online to enforce stricter laws and rules for child safety online, which I definetly encourage everyone read over the whole petition & to please sign since the petition is 100% free and you can share publicly online so we can bring an end to child sexual exploitation. It is sad and very horrific how there are child predators who would take advantage and take away the innocence of precious children, & I mean God's children, cuz this is where the enemy would come and attack these precious children. When we observe serious issues like this, we need to speak up and stand up for the fairness and justice for those who don't have the strength to stand up for themsleves. I know we all had feel guilty by feeling a sense of regret for not standing up for someone after witnessing them being bullied or degraded by someone or a group of people, or for some people it can be a case where I am reflecting on right now. Saints such as St. Josephine Bakhita, St. Agatha of Sicilly, St. Maria Goretti, St. Mary of Egypt, & St. Dymphna are the parton saints for SA victims, and during that time after we finished and published the petition, I did pray to St, Josephine to intercede for the young models where they seek protection from the adults who would safeguard them & that God would hold the adults accountable. I do encourage for all of you guys reading this to please pray for these young models & go to these saints for our intercession for these girls ♡ When we take measures by protecting others by the act of care and courage alongside valuing justice, love becomes something that is active, and not the complete opposite where it becomes passive. I know this is hard thing to do where people like us pass or walk pass these situations or afraid to speak up or having the thought in our heads of 'someone else will handle it,' but when we defend the needy or those who are weak and vulnerable, this is where we can make a huge difference not only for the victim, but for everyone to create the world a safer place for everyone ♡♡
Proverbs 31:22-29 has a similiar connection to 1 Timothy 2:9-10 & Ephesians 5:22-25 regarding about modesty & submission to your husband, however in an indirect yet balanced way (เน>•̀เน) ✨ for those who are confused why these proverb verses focuses on these things indirectly, I am here to gently explain while some of the things will be similiar to what I've mentioned earlier + these are the important things to pick up on for femninity ( ห๐ทห) .แ.แ Starting off with Proverb 31:22-24, the context behind this verse emphasizes on a woman who is bibicially femninime would contribute to creating stability, she is able to contributge and capable of showing productivity respect in her household and take care of her inner and outer self though self-respect & intention. When I mean these verses focuses on these elements indirectly, I mean it in the way they do which you guys would soon understand later on. As you guys keep on reading along with this discuession, you guys already see the connection as I keep on comparing them to the secular world of the views of femninism and femninity altogether. The first one (which is my favourite one!) this verses touches very dearly is modesty. Yes yes yes- I know some people will roll their eyes or sigh thinking it's going to be another lecture of modesty, but I'm promise you it's not & I would try not to sound to repetitive, but it's still is important for everyone reading this to listen & to understand this based on how meaningful to is for all women and girls reading this. Now I am fully aware that some Christian women reading this may be familiar with the saying.. "She makes coverings for herself, her clothing is fine linen & purple.' This message can carry off as subliminal to some, the meaning of what it carries is how a bibicial femninime woman would show she respects herself & her own dignity & how she's intentful of how she displays herself to others through speech & apperance. Now this doesn't only apply of how well you dress or take care of yourself, but it does apply something more bigger, which is how you talk to other people. You see.. in this world, people present themselves for the wrong crowd such as dressing to seek approval off from social media and in real life or to say crude or innapropiate things to get people wind up or to get a reaction online. Unfortunately, this is what we witness every single time whenever we are in this world and through social media or on the internet entirely. I sometimes observe other women not negelecying their self-care through their hygeneic practices, which does have an effect of how she presents herself to the world. I get it that some people may go through personal or finacial situations where they do not have the resources for sanitary or cosmetic products but based on how I was brought up in a culture and social norms where hygiene is essnetial for a woman, I believe presentation always matters because how you present yourself not only reflects on your inner value as a human being, but also how others may precieve you. Although it isn't nice to judge others, but it's also important to note that apperance carries everything of the person, even if you didn't came from a wealthy background where you didn't grew up having the resources you needed. I get it there are people who are struggling to get the resources they needed, however before someone says this to me- I am not saying this to bash or to shun others who neglect their self-care, rather I am here to pray they get the resources they need and to properly take care of themselves as much as possible ♡♡ how this is reflective to bibicial femninity is how a woman would be presenting and dressing herself in a way which it reflects on her dignity and self-respect, because again as I mentioned earlier, this is where presenttation reflects on inner value of a woman, which is what Proverbs 31:22 is emphasizing which I believe a lot of women should be considerate of when it comes to modesty. Another verse which is Proverbs 31:23 has a saying of 'Her husband is known in the gates,' While yes.. this can threw some people or perhaps- many people off when they do not have a complete understanding or hearing this passage for the first time, but this can mean simply is how a femininme woman bibicially would create an environment where contributes posititvely to the relationships she has in her life by creating peace and order by respecting the harmony. You guys can already see the connection from the other scriptures I've emphasize which you guys are more than welcome to back and reflect on them. Even through married or romantic relationships in this world, we hear stories or observe instability, tension, and constant conflict. Because of this, this explains the #1 reason why we see divorce or relationshop breakup rates being very high than it was before from the past couple of decades. This isn't a good thing or something we should be proud of as women and as a society because when some of us are called in to marriage or a romantic relationship with someone, God intended us as women to create a strong foundation for all of our relationships based on respect, peace, and stability. When we heal and recover broken relationships as Christian women, this is where we create a peaceful harmony by building relationships where stability and healthy balacned where it has peace and order （*＾＾*) Although Proverbs 31:24-27 sounded already similiar to you guys as readers, I'm not going to go more in depth since I know you guys already had an idea of the context of these verses are based on what I've previously had spoken about. I am going to go on ahead and talk about Proverbs 31:28-29 which to me personally is where I find it needs to be said since this is to me the main important part to be discuss openly in the topic of bibicial femninity. This verse does have the connection to the other proverb verse, Proverbs 31:8-9, but I am more so happy to go and discuss about these verses again since I feel how important for us as women to hear this ( ˙▿˙ ) SO!- in case you are wondering of what the context of both verses are, it mentions about how a feninime woman would leave a postive impact to others and how her character is deeply valued and recognized. We know a woman in our lives or someone we hear elsewhere where she sets an example not just to you, but for other women and girls as well even all around the world. To me personally, I find it rare to see these kinds of women who can make a huge difference for the world for younger girls since I find it that everyone wants to be influenced by being a follower due to the potential fear of standing out of the crowd. Because the main thing is that everyone in the world, especially we as women, we value or follow the wrong things in life where God did not intended or plan us to do or chase after, even through some of the values came from the ideas of femninism. I remember mentioning earlier where me and my friend created a petition to make an impact for these younger girls who were being exploited to create not just a difference for them only, but for other children who are being trafficked or exploited online. Altough it did both taken us weeks for us to make this together & would put us into risk of potetionally getting ourselves in trouble, we decide to do something that can make a difference to these girls lives so then they can be protected by the people who would safeguard them, and those people are Mother Mary, Jesus Himself, Archangels, & the adults in this world who truly care for their safety and well-being. Now- when we start doing this as Christian women by setting an example by making an impact to others, this is where we can create a lasting influence not to those who we helped or protected, but for the rest of the women and girls all around the world. It's very interesting cuz I remember reflecting back, one of my friends telling me that I can be the way or the light to lead others, by setting myself as a perfect example, almost pretty much more so in a leadership role since some people always describe me having a motherly-role, but also leading them to Christ, the Shepard and the Way ๐ .⋆♱ It is hard where you had people not being their own leaders by following the crowd, but when we take the courage by living the way to bless others, this is where we can create a huge impact to the world, which is what I find beautiful about femninity as a whole („• แด •„)
The passage of Proverbs 31:29 somehow does touches dearly to me with the saying.. "Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.' Hm, this does spark some confusion to me until I go back to relflect of what it truly means alol thanks to the previous scriptures. Through the modern world beliefs and femninism, there's always women and girls online specially who constantly compete and compare themselves towards one another, and see this all the time where regular every day women like me you guys who are reading where we always compare ourselves to influencers or celeberties who we don't even know or have ZERO IDEA of what is going on in their personal lives. Comparison is a thief of joy which is going to lead us to many internal issues down the road, and that is where bibicial femninity shows a complete opposite constrast to what worldy secular standards are. How a bibicial femninime woman shows how her character is deeply valued and recognized by other people who truly respects her is by her simply not comparing herself to others by her knowing and having the awareness that she is fearfully and wonderfully made & how God has setted up plans for her, & how she's grows her own character by not competeing or comparing herself to other women she's sees in real life or online. This is hard for me especially since I always comstantly compare myself to other women all the time even during the times when I was younger, and it's still is something I am battling with til' this day. But when we know our own self-worth by not seeking for other people's approval, thats where we seek true happiness and sense or worth not from ourselves, but from God since we are fearfully and wonderfully made in His image ₍แข. .แข₎ ₊˚⊹♡
Phew~ ok!.. another interesting vcrse I chose which does matches this topic is 2 Maccabees 7:20-21, which again DOES have an effect on femninity which this scripture isn't looked at for most people, espcially Catholics in particular which makes it almost a hidden gem to this discussion of femninity. I would say again this has a connection to Titus 2:3-5 & Proverb 31:26 once you begin to see the careful connection at the end of the paragraph. For the first verse where it says 'The mother was especially admirable, encouraging them in the Lord.' What this can simply mean is that a feminime woman's strength is shown through faith and courage by supporting others & staying strong whenever she's in diffuclt situations. Many of you guys who've reached this far from this blog can already see where this is going, however I'm going to say it anyway for those who still don't understand why the verse means this way. In the constrast of the modern world, the common reactions we observed in today's world is how people would always choose what is easy for them for comfort or losing hope by giving up in difficult situations in which challenges them. I can admit, I always choose comfort instead of challenging myself in diffuclt situations or giving up easily on things through fear and self-doubt, and I'm sure most of us are all like this whenever if we want to admit it or not. I don't know, reflecting back to this, I don't have a negative mindset (sometimes I do) to things I try for the first time or the things I don't want to do, even through there are times where I feel like giving up easily, but when my teacher told me to not listen to the enemy voice, that's where I slowly began to have a growth mindset which is something I never had before during my younger years in my life where I was more insecure and low in my confindence. How bibicial femninity reflects through this differently is how it shows that a femninime woman would gently encourage other girls and women through her faith & remaning spriitually strong and staying firm in diffuclt situations. While the modern world pushes the idea or mindset where we have to give up on things that are hard or out of our comfort zone, bibicial femininty gently encourages all Christian women to show our strength becomes faithful instead of being fearful when we begin to have a positive mindset of being through challenges situations ( เน ˃̵แด˂̵)ู ♡ Now the second verse is going to sound pretty similiar to the first one, but I'm going to choose to talk about it anyway ☆～（ใ。∂）The passage of the second verse where it says 'She spoke to them in their native language, filled with a noble spirit' isn't written there for no reason, but it was there for a purpose. The meaning of this saying through it's context simply means a femininime woman would use her voice to uplift, stregthen, & to simply guide others. Now- I feel like this should be understood by now for most people reading this, but how this is seen through the modern lenses through femninist beliefs of how we see women all the time speaking out of fear or panic or spreading hate or discouragement towards other women through in real life or on the internet through social media. As a society, we've been desensitized to either hearing people or us ourselves talking down someone who is struggling by adding on fear to them or other forms of hatred or negativity to them which are all going to crush someone's soul and their dignity. How as Christian women we should be to other people is to be encouraging, guiding, and more importantly.. reminding others God's truth. When a bibicial femninime woman does this, she speaks with wisdom and courage and brings in her own strength to others through words not by weaking or damaging other people. By doing that- thats where the words we say to each other can become encouraging and life-giving, which is what this verse is emphasizing.
The verse Lamentations 3:27 is pretty much already similiar to the previous scriptures I've spoken about from the past couple of patagraphs, so I'm not going to go through that one again since I would allow you guys to take a look at it yourselves and reflect back to the previous scriptures for it's context เซฎ ˶แต แต แต˶ แ buuuuut I am going to go through Lamentations 3:28 despite how I personally believe this should be mentioned for EVERYONE to not only give it a read, but also to discuss about as well. So what this verse is emphasizing by the saying 'Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him,' what it basically mean is to simply choose reflection instead of constant noise. The lovely yet beautiful part is how in the Catholic faith- silence and reflection matters when practicing the faith because of how it opens up space for stillness, reflection, & overall a space just to listen. I figured some Christians may be reading this aren't Catholic & probably may not understand or are confused why the Church has always been practicing this tradition- but the reason why silence & relfection matters & is an essensial practice of the faith is so we can simply have the time process & pray & being present with God, even during the times when Mass happens or in Eucharistic Adoration ๐ฉธ This is very interesting for me to mention since many of us aren't used to sitting with silence, rather we get uncomfortable wiith it by simply finding a distraction in order for us to keep ourselves busy. I can see this too from some Christians from different denominations where they aren't used to constant noise through loud songs of worship & singing or chanting (& this is me saying as someone who came from those kinds of churches & how much I feel constant stress from the constant loud noises ๐ต๐ซ ) That's why I hear from some people they don't feel the Holy Spirit present through silence, when really is completely untrue when you look through it on a deeper & spirutal level & to me I always feel a sense of grounding & relief compared to when I was in my other church there is constant worship & loud singing. I'm not saying this to talk ill about other churches, but rather this is me expressing what I feel is best for me sprirtually & through my sensory procress of how I sense a connection to the Almighty ๐ I can speak for this for myself since I'm neurodivergent by me being in the autism spectrum since I get restless, anxious, & constantly get overstimulated and get fidgety (& many neurodivergents who may be reading this could say the same too, ww ๊ (´∀｀)สฑยชสฑยชสฑยช) Whenever I step into Mass, I always feel a sense of calmess and peace wheneevr I sit, kneel, and chant alongside just simply reflecting with God being present. Even during this time where there is constant noise and distraction to the point we get overstimulated though social media, God wants us to simply detox ourselves by sitting with Him through prayer and reflection by simply taking the time to practice stillness. How this has anything to do with bibicial femiminity as some of my fellow readers may be wondering is how she is reflective, thoughtful, & overall- practice stillness, & by doing all these things- this is where silence bring clarity. Trust me- as we are constantly are having constant background noise playing in our lives every single time like it's a broken record, God is inviting us to detach ourselves off from the noise in our lives by allowing ourselves to reflect & stay silent. When I used social media less each day for Lent, I did relasped for the first few days sure- but it did bring me a sense of peeace and clarity before Holy Week had begun, which did help me to sit and reflect & allow God to invite me to be as intimate to Him ๐ Lamentations 3:29 emphasizes of the saying.. "Let him put his mouth in the dust, there may be hope.' I can see how this can caught people off-guard and rub others reading this the wrong way, but it's points out something important we should be doing as Christian women which is to show humility & to surrender. Before this can rub people the wrong way of the passage, allow me to carefully explain what the verse means through both modern views of femininism & through bibicial femninity. As we are all aware, the modern world glorifies pride by having people being their own 'gods.' We should be aware by now that having a spirit of pride isn't good because of how not only it's sinful on it's own (yes pride is a sin,) but also it does lead to many problems down the road such as deception, causes division, having a spirit of selfishness, & spritual blindness. This can have stunt of spriritual growth which yes!- pride does hinder your walk with God. We see in the modern world or people saying all the time such as.. 'I don't need God, I can do things myself." or... "I can handle everything on my own.' You see... this where it becomes a problem cuz as human beings as God's daugthers, He wants us to be dependant on Him, jus as a newborn baby being dependant on his or her mother. When we are open to growth and humble ourselves before God & are willing to surrender to Him, this is where spritiual growth starts to progress, which is what bibicial femninity truly emphasizes on. When we tell the Lord 'I can't control this, but I know You can & I trust in You," that's where you began to see humility opening the door of hope ☺ The other verse Lamentations 3:31 mentions simply how hardship and roadblocks aren't permnanent, there is still a sense of hope. If you read the passage: "For the Lord will not cast off forever," you'll later see why it wasn't written there for no reason (˶• แด •˵) whenever we are in difficult situations, we tend to give up easily by having the feeling of hopelessness, and we've all had experienced situations like this whever if we like to admit it or not. For bibicial femiminity on a ligther note, its shows a woman can be resilient, trusting and hopeful when she's going through difficult situations. There is a reason why God allowed us to suffer, not because He abandoned us or to have us experienced the worse, but to allow us to face through them in order to strengthen our intimacy with Him. There are many people from the Bible & Catholic saints who faced many challenges, through yes, they've still had feelings of hopelessness, but they remain to be perseverant by having their trust in the Lord and remaining hopeful at the same time ♡ when someone from the world says "this would never get any better, I give up," we as Christian women should have the mindset of "this is hard, but it won't last forever.' When we built in a growth mindset both spiritually and mentally, this is where hope replaces despair entirely. The last verse I want to emphasize is Lamentations 3:30 where it says "Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes" simply means to have patience & endurance in harship. I did remember mentioning earlier throughout the way of this blog where in this world through social media, people are quick to react to anger whenever they see someone doing someone they don't like, or when when they choose to seek rveenge on someone who've wronged them. This is about those two things is that niether of these things are Christi-like & as Christian women- when we do these things, we aren't making a good example to others who Christ is. How this can reflect to bibicial femninity is how a femininime woman would pause & think by choosing peace, cuz remember- peace becomes a choice if we choose it or not. When she does this, show shows emotional strength, self-control/temperance, & restraint on herself instead of her allowing her own emotions to control her. This is where her strength becomes controlled & not reactive, and as Christian women- I believe that we should be more like this whenever someone or something is getting in our way.
ooooo!- This is the most well-known Proverb 31 verse that almost every Christian women knows which is Proverbs 31:30-31. You see here my fellow readers, this verse already has connections to both Proverbs 11:22 & 1 Peter 3:3-4, however I'm going to go ahead and talk about it anyway since this is one of the core verses of the topic of femninity + there is a reason why I picked this verse (｡ใแด•) แฏแกฃ๐ญฉ Ok!- when the first verse which is Proverbs 31:30 talks about how outward beauty and charm are temporary based on how decietful it is and how it can fade over time. The passage "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting' isn't written inside scripture for no reason, but does have a big valuable lesson we as women and girls should all be aware of. Again, as we are living in the world where beauty standards for women keeps on constantly changing, the modern world sends out direct and indirect messages to us as women that seeking approval from others is what is going to get us the most attention online and in real life, and how our worth comes based on how we look. We already know that when we act desperate to others, this is where things becomes sour, cuz not only it's going to attract the wrong group of people, but it is also going to have a toll of you spriritually, emotionally, & mentallity as a whole. When we take a look of beauty and fashion culture or celeberity or influencer culture online, we can see how their whoe image up to the public is all about their looks and overall- their outer apperance. Here is how it's different for bibicial femninity, for a bibicial femninime woman, she doesn't care to depend on her apperance to seek attention from others but raher values her inner character. Thing is too is that she's not driven or difinded by the public through beauty trends. I know there is this social hierarchy in this world where it defines a woman of how beautiful or how ugly she is and how she is treated by others both direct and indirectly, but when it comes to bibicial femninity, beauty alone doesn't come by someone elses outer apperance, but rather it's something more deeper which truly focuses on someone's inner value & character altogether. I feel like personally to me that this is something I should tell myself & other women in this world, because sadly we are indirectly being driven to constant beauty trends we see online and too worried of how others may precieve us based on how we look. But when it comes to bibicial femninity, it focuses on something wayyyyy more deeper, which is the woman's value of her inner-self & her character. The other half od the verse where it says "...but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised," does have a bigger sense of it's meaning to it, & that is where true value comes through faith & reverence for God. How this can reflect to bibicial femninity simply is how a bibicial femninime woman is grounded in her faith & lives with purpose, alongside how she values her own relationship with Christ ♡♱ the huge difference I can see how the modern world views it is again how they push the idea for a women or a young girl to focus on external success (which I don't see a problem with until it becomes prideful and envy) with it including the message of priorritizing on physical beauty than your walk with God. Do you not see how this is a issue? The reason is why this is seen as a problem is because it pushes the ideas to the person to focus on superficial things which doesn't going to last for long compared to your worth which God has given to you. A bibicial femninime woman would focus on herself for other people to be respected for her faith, values, and her own character, and mind you these are different than the materialistic things we had in the world since all of these things God had given to us are all spritiual. When the world praises women for their looks or how well-known they are the othe world, what bibicial femninity emphasizses is that true value comes from your faith and reverence for God alone, not from all the superficial & masterialistic things that is being promoted in the world. The second verse Proverbs 31:31 talks about how a femimine woman is recognized by others of what she does & values her own life and effort. How this is different again through what the secular world sees it is already similiar of what I mentioned earlier. People of the world focus on valuing apperances over actions & ignoring character & effort. I am aware that people may argue on me in this one since not all people in the world are like this, but if I was speaking through my observations, I would say majority of the people are like this, even through the world of social media. We see this a lot where Hollywood actors and actresses for example are being known for their looks and apperance and not for the good works they do. Cuz' believe me, we live in the world where we make the wrong people famous & value the wrong things in life, and not recgonized the ones who make an impact and serve Jesus for their works for helping others. It's interesting too when I am reflecting on this since people who are known for their kindness don't care about being famous to the public or getting a reward off from someone compared to what most people do, but they care for not only leaving an impact & living through purpose of their lives, but they are doing this to use their actions and works to serve Jesus. When a bibicial femninime woman does this (which is what all Christian women SHOULD be doing), this is where people know us not only for making a difference in this world, but also they can see through are works and characters that we are doing this to serve the Lord. The part of the verse where it says "...let her works bring her praise at the city gate," simply means that a femninime woman earns respect in her life publicly without seeking validation from others. Here is where things are different from the modern secular world. Again, we see this a lot through people on the internet & everyday people where the force themselves to act deperate to others for the need for external validation and attention from other people. We see this all the time because of how we see people get famous for the wrong reasons or how someone is getting abused or mistreated by someone or a group of people for not having their dignity and boundaries being respected. Mind you- this is extremely, and I mean extremely common through both friendships and romantic relationships, and I used to be this person where I force myself to seek approval from others and later get mistreated and taken advantage of from those same people. Thing is about chasing recognition is that it doesn't always lead you to happiness, and the reason I say this based through my own experiences & from other people's stories is how it lead them into a darker path to the point where they don't feel loved or valued from the people they are around. Luckly for me- I did thanfully recover from this since I learned that when you stay firm to your boundaries and don't please others, you began to earn respect from others indirectly. This is a beautiful thing when it comes to bibicial femninity is how a woman who is feninime wouldn't go around in public to chase people's approval, but rather she earns her respect from others through character & how she stands firm to her values and boundaries. To me, this is what I find beautiful about this verse because it just simply shows that respect from others isn't forced, but rather it's earned through our own characters.
Anywho... let's now move on to the next scripture which is Sirach 7:24-31, where it emphasizes more on how we should be keeping God at the center through revernece, love, and openness to guidance where a meaninful life is build on faith, gratitide, & intentional relationships. I can see how this verse does ties in traditional family structure and gender roles for both men and women. As someone who is both a traditional & socially conservative, there is a reason why I picked this verse through this topic of this blog page. This is already similiar to the scriptures of 1 Timothy 2:9-10, 1 Peter 3:3-4, & some other scriptures which I've already had discussed about on previously. The first verse which is Sirach 7:24 talks about modesty again- but with a deeper meaning to it. In case if you guys are wondering why the passage says "Do you have daugthers? Be concerned for their modesty," it doesn't have any ties to misogyny by putting down women, rather it talks about how as women- modesty is something we should care for through our dignity and protection. I've already covered about why modesty is important for us as women to be mindful of, but I am more than happy to go over it again for those reading this who do not understand or still are seeking awnsers though this virtue ๐ ok, so how the modern world sees this through femninst ideas specfically is how I tend to observe this commonly through social media & sometimes in real life how people are constantly being careless about influences, meaning where we allow popular beliefs and trends shape our choices, values, and behaviours without pausing to discern. Most people (even me included) don't know this, but when it comes to trend, they hold a lot of power to us as human beings. How this is the case is how in the world through social media, trends are up on our faces intentionally to make us believe that we need to be following that certain trend or we are missing out, which is where FOMO comes in. Even though this- it does explain why people naturally follow what others are doing because of how much we can to conform to the trends. As we are living in the age through social media, it's hard for us to unsee the trends up on our feeds since we always get bombed by it almost every single day whenever out favourite infleuncer, model, or even a celeberity begans to promote it. One thing about me is that I'm easily influenced when it comes to trends when I was younger even up to now, which is why whenever a new trend is happening- I always have the feeling of FOMO and would get upset whenever I'm not folowing along a certain trend. Now that I reunited back to Christ as His lost sheep, I don't follow every trend I see in real life or online, but rather what I do is I carefully discern is that spefic trend aligns with my values or it would benefit me of some way. This is something I am battling with currently as I'm slowly learning that it's OK to miss out on things in life, and not every trend is worth following. I don't know if it's because I'm young and vulnerable, but I throught it would be interesting to re-evaulate myself based through this context of this verse ₍แต•แด•แต₎ before someone argues with me or get's the wrong message- I'm not here to say that all trends that are popular are inherently bad, but it is very important to discern & ask this question to yourself.. "Is the trend choosing you or are you choosing it?" I remember myself mentioning this when I was talking about 1 Timothy 2:9-10 & some other scriptures before that when it comes to a bibicial femninime woman, she honors and values her modesty & her dignity, & is guided with care & wisdom through discernment. This is where I think people get the wrong idea of modesty is that they mistaken it as being restrictive or controlling when really that isn't the case. When a femninime woman is being mindful of what protects her dignity & self-respect for herself by reflecting is the trend being presented reflects on her values & dignity. I feel this is an important aspect of bibicial femninity cuz of how it shows you aren't easily infleunced and are being intentional and thoughful of yourself instead of being careless of what your getting yourself into. The second verse Sirach 7:25 emphasizes on something I've spoken about much earlier & is already is similiar to scriptures Ephesians 5:22-25, Proverbs 31:11-12, Genesis 3:16, & Colossians 3:18. The whole meaning of the verse truly reflects on the guidance of stable and meaningful relationships, and I feel like too especially this is the main core element for marriage especially, which is where the passage 'Give a daughter in marriage' came from. Since one of my core values is marriage & want a spouse in the future, there is a reason why this verse does directly speak & reflect on me in based on my vocation I've been praying to God for me to enter ♡ when it comes to marital relationships, I personally believe that there has to be a sense of direction & purpose for both partners with long-term meaning & aspirations. When God had us have marriage as a sacrament, it's not something we treat casually, but rather it allows yourself to sacrifice yourself with your spouse before God Himself, basically in others words is to give up yourself and share your life with God & your life-long partner. I feel when it comes to modern culture, hookup culture is on the rise of people casually partnering up with others by sleeping or having sex without having the time to build a deeper connection with that person. I do feel sorrow for the people who do this because there are people who date due to the fear of being lonely or missing out because they see their peers and other people around them dating. One thing I do see as a issue when people casually hookup with others is when there is no clear goals or commitment between both spouses & how the red flags or warnings are being ignored and brushed off whenever someone is mistreating them, which not only it can escalate to instability & abuse, but it also does defeat the purpose of what marriage is & shows how the person isn't ready to be fully committed to enter through the sacrament of marriage. I do pray for those who are in abusive relationships where they find hope and seek the courage to step back & walk out of the unstable relationships, even to those who are reading this who may be currently in one & have no way of getting out of one ( ´･･)๏พ(._.`) ♡ when my teacher told me what she mentioned to me earlier, I do have a clear understanding of what she really means of what she said, cuz if I wasn't told this earlier & if I ended up in a situation like this, I would've been in stuck in a deeper rabbit hole by now. On a lighter note, how bibicial femninity reflects and see this differently than femninist beliefs is how a bibical feminime woman would know when to step away from a toxic relationship & seeking for a relationship where it's stable, meaningful, & respectful. One thing which should be taken very seriously & not be overlooked whe is comes to marriage is that both spouses are repectful to one another & are serious about planning for their life-long goals & future. When everything flows through intention and purpose, thats where marriage begans to build something more real & present with God involved, Which results to love being purposeful, not something to be treated as casual. Because of this- this is what I would like for my future hubby & I to have for a healthy Christ-centered marriage ๐
Sirach 7:28 talks about how showing gratitude would always keep you humble & grounded, in other words we should be thanking every little thing people provide to you or what you have in life. You guys are already are going to see how this may be similiar to what I mentioned earlier, but I am once again going to contrast it to the modern world & bibicial femninity. You see, we have this kind of mindset where we believe that we are unstoppable or no one can defeat us, or having the saying in our minds of "I did everything myself & they didn't do anything." kind of mentailty. Whenever we want to admit it or not, almost everyone who's been reading this has felt this way at some point in their lives, including I myself. This kind of mindset & mentailty is wrong and sinful, and for the people who may be wondering why it is the case, it's falls under the sin of pride. When we feel prideful of ourselves, we tend to be blind by what we see around us by feeling self-centered by not seeing others who helped you reach there. As society had normalized the thing of "Take pride of your own work," I didn't see an issue of that kind of mentality up until now that I am reflecting on this. Sure, there isn't anything wrong by feeling proud of your work and achievements, but real & main question to ask ourselves is.. where is the humility & the gratitude we should share to others? I sometimes hear people always say.. "I got here all on my own, & I don't need to owe or thank anyone" whenever someone talks about their accomplishments. Now I do not know if they said these things carelessly or not, but regardless what it is it has something missing which feels empty when we either say something similiar to these lines or when we hear others say this. The main issue is the fact how they forget how they reached to their goal they've achieve which is where it becomes prideful as a result. Another exmaples I can point out from the world is how we see people taking things for granted such as wasting food & people's time & skill and misuing the things that were given to them by their own parents or other peoples in their lives instead of the recognizing the people who sacrifice themselves to do these things for them, or acting dismissive where they ignore the people giving them advice & have the mentailty or mindset of "They don't understand me or anything they're saying." Believe it or not, we hear this a lot commonly through the media we watch and listen & in real life to for a pretty long time where we hear people say these or do these kinds of things similiar to what I've pointed out just now. Believe it or not, I used to be that person who had that kind of mentality & a mindset of this before God had change my heart & self of how I see things. Yes, I am aware there are some people who may argue with this point of what this scripture is going aganist, however this is the truth which does point out of how as people do & act based in the world we are living in whenever if we want to accept it's the truth or not. Now here's how things are different when it comes to bibicial femninity where I want you guys as readers & read carefully & to reflect on. How this verse does reflect on the lenses of bibicial femninity is that a women who is bibicially femninime would acknowledge the sacrifice of other people of what they've done for her (ie. friends, family, parents) & celebrate her achievements by acknowledging people had helped her while still remaning to show care & patience. What she would also do is she wouldn't be self-centered by thinking everything is all on her, but rather what she would do is show her gratitude for the people who give her support and help her to reach her goals in her life. As we are living in the world where femninism beliefa pushes a narrative to women and girls to be hyper-independant & forgetting about their own support systems of the I don't need anyone mindset," what we shoud be doing as Christian women is to show how grounded & grateful we are through gratitude, & recognizing how we shouldn't forget about the people who helped or raised us to be the people we are today. When we set that example as Christian women to the people in thsi world, this is where we shine the light of Christ to them which makes the world a better place (´ ∀ *) anywho, there's Sirach 7:29 where it emphasizes on something to me I find most Christians should take into account & very seriously which we should put God first in our lives before anything else, not sometimes or in times where it convenient, but all the time everyday. In the verse, you might see the word fear, which doesn't mean to be scared of God, but rather what it means simply is to show deep veneration by showing awe & respect to Him very seriously. This is already going to sound similiar to what I said earlier from Sirach 7:24, so I would try not to sound too repetitive & bring in a comparison to how this verse reflects on the modern world & through bibcial femninity. So you see here folks, when it comes to doing stuff in our daily lives, we tend to do things out of impulse by doing it through our own emotions, or I shall say.. through our own flesh without stopping to think & reflect. I can admit for me too that I tend to do things out of impulse without me even realizing it after I did something without thinking about it. I think the same idea can apply too when we tend to act self-centered of ourselves by not thinking of the descions we make woulod lead us closer to the Lord, or when we don't put God as our main source of priority but replace it with social media, trends, & other people's opinions of certain topics. One thing I would say that this is already not a good thing, because not only the worldy standards don't have a sense of spiritual direction or deep purpose, but it also does lead to the wrong route where we prioritize on the things that are materialistic & temporary. Sadly whenever if we want to acknlowledge it or not, this is a form of idolarty because of how whne we replace these things to the ranking of God's spot in our lives as the top #1, this is where we take God out of the picture which isn't a good thing. From the past, I was this person where I did these things, where I was doing things that aren't intentful or lead me more closer to God in a sense it gives me awareness, & that was during the time where I didn't have an intimate relationship with Christ until I came back to His gentle arms short after late of last year by taking Him seriously in my life. Another thing I do think it is important to point out is when we take out or don't have God in our lives ever, this is where we experience more confusion by trends as I mentioned earlier having control over our throughts and actions. For bibicial femninity, how it follows the context of this scripture is that a woman who shows bibical femninity lives through intergrity, has ver life all together through inner direction, & more importantly.. having her whole life centered to God alone. I feel like personally as the world get's more secularized, most people feel their life don't have a sense of diraction & purpose and still feel in a rut when they keep pushing themselves to trying new things that are ambitious. I know some people it may not be the base, but I would say I am speaking for the vast majority of this world as society keeps getting more advanced & push away the Creator who brought us here from the first place (￣︿￣) I can already see what the past scriptures Proverbs 31:30, Proverbs 31:25-26, Lamentations 3:25-26, & Lamentations 3:31 points out with this issue of the modern world is going through as people feel no clarity but rather confusion, but when we prioritize on God first before everything else & have our lives cenetered to Him alone, things becomes clearer and you'll see a sense of direction & purpose in your life (˶แต แต แต˶)
oh goodness!~ phew... ๐ฎ๐จ now that I'm done talking about that verse, let me allow myself to shift you guys focus on Sirach 7:30, where the context behind the verse mainly talks about what I've already mentioned earlier ๐ which is to love & put God first for everything, not when it is conveninet. I would try not to go as repetitve for explaining the differences for both secular and bibicial femninity views, however I would be willing to explain it more for the people who do not understand & need more of a clear understanding but more brief this time. Only difference about this verse is where it is already similiar to the other verses, but I'll go on ahead and explain the meaning nevertheless. So again~ as we are living in the world where we are so easily influence of trends and different opinons being expressed (inclduing the topic of femninity since every women has different views & understanding of the topic ┐(´ใผ｀)┌), we often worry about how people may precieve us for doing or believing in certain views & kept on consistently comparing ourselves to others questioning if we are better or greater than them or not. Another point I want to point out that we do as Christian women is how we do things out of impulse by choosing what feels good in a moment & not making our time to center our prayer lives & faith to God. I'll be honest right here, I myself is extremely guilty for this since I consistently watse my times on other things & not prioritizing myself to God alone by spending too much time on the internet & on social media. It is hard especially coming from someone who is from the spectrum & have diffifulty of staying focus where I'm surrounded in an evironment with lots of distractions, but I do ask God to give me a sense of focus & time to reflect on prayer & to grow in faith. To me personally- medtataing on the rosary & praying to the Chaplet of Divine mercy helps me not only to give me a ense of peace & clarity alone, but to to gently reflect on Christ's life & what He've done for me and you as readers in a way to ask Mama Mary to guide me closer to her Son. I do different & general prayers to that do help me to stay grounded (˶• แด •˵) I promise you being a young adult girl who is both Catholic & autistic isn't easy, especially in the world where the enemy is under attack on me & everyone else almost every time where you feel the world clumbling & is aganist you, ww (´∀｀) I remember there were times where I constantly compare myself to others to the person online who I do not actually know & always worrying what others think of me if I do or say something wrong which don't align with their beliefs. Since now I am conservative both tradtionally & socially & have a life only centered to God alone, I don't care to seek other people's attention for their approval by changing or negoiating my beliefs & values with the world. It's one thing as Christian women is that we are made to stand out of the world by being set apart, we are in this world, but we are not of it, which is the main key element when it comes to bibicial femninity of this main theme of this Sirach verse. When a bibical femninime woman is being representive of this scripture, she's no easily influenced by trends or people's opinions of things, rather what she does simply is she lives her life through integrity & through intention. I feel like as Christian women- we don't want to be the ones standing out which does somewhat explains why you see some other Christians doing certain things thyat God seen as it being sinful. That is why as Christian women we should be having God as our top priority, not something where we treat Him out of convivience. The last verse before I wrap this up is Sirach 7:31 where it talks about how growth progresses fater when you are willing to learn & have an open mind. This one is super easy for most people to understand, so I won't go too deep on this one but just keep it brief. How this was be seen in the modern world is how we see people everyday where they feel prideful or entitled to not listen to anyone, or simply witness people getting defensive whenever someone gently corrects them of their mistakes or whenever they do something wrong. I know & did finally realized that naturally in human nature, we don't like being told that we are wrong due to felling embarassed up front of everyone, however I'm going to be direct on this one- showing humility is greater & better than being prideful. I can see how this would upset others & cause an uproar, but when we allow ourselves to naturally be humble & open-minded, this is where we naturally allow growth both spiritually & intellectually. I can see how in today's world too where people don't want to be open to larning, and let me admit this- I see this happen a lot to a lot of kids at my school. They don't use the time to learn & feed their minds with knowledge, rather they are on their phones scrolling on social media. This isn't me shaming the reader or these people who did these things, but rather it is important for me to point these issues. Another thing too is how there are people who either are scared or don't want to ask others for help and have the mindset of "I'll figure everything out on my own." I can see for myself to me why this is an issue because truth is as us as human beings, God didn't designed us to be working alone. Sure, it's a good thing where in somethings we must figure things out on our own through problem-solving, but it develop a mindset where it becomes unhealthy where it can lead to the point of isolation. For me personally because I'm neurodivergent & have a learning disability, certain things I feel like are harder for me to figure out on my own which is why I always have assistance from one of my friends or an trusted adult I know. It's very interesting how all in our lives we've been told from others to just 'here, figure it out.' with no instrcutions or to little to no infornation, and it's sad cuz it makes people be in a place where they feel isolated and how it makes them feel less desirable to learn things. In my personal opinion, this is how I feel about schools and workplaces in general- is that they don't care about giving people guidance to learn properly, especially with those with learning or developmental disabilities like I do (and I'm saying this in a place as someone who does not like school & refuse to enter through the workforce in the future.) Now I did pointed that out, this verse does also apply too when Christians don't take their faith seriously by treating the church or their own faith causually, and you guys already are aware this isn't a good thing because of how God warned us about lukewarm Christians. There were some parts of theese which was me from the past now relfecting back through this, but it is really is important for me and other people to emphasize on since how this does relfect back to us in our everyday lives. To me this does speak to me since I'm young and inexperienced of the real world, and I know I have only 3 more years of high school left before I enter into the real world, but it is important for me to learn about this verse nonetheless. How I can see this connect to bibicial femninity is that a femninime woman would listen to the advice of her helps who would guide her spiritually & alolow herself to have an open-mind for growth. I can see how for some people (inclduing me) would be finding this diiffult to do, but the thing is as Christian women- when we take advice from the elders or people who had experienced more than we did, this is where we don't reject wisdom and accept guidance from them. Cuz keep in mind- God uses people to speak to us when we are in certain situations, which is what this verse is truly emphasizes แต̈
Okie!~ Now let us move us to one of the most famous verse in the Bible Romans 12:2. Now this verse does have a generalized meaning behind it, however since were on the focus of femninity, were going to emphasize together why this has a strong connection to bibicial femninity <(˶แตแตแต˶)> The context behind of this verse really teaches that as Christian women- we shouldn't be following what everyone else in the world is doing, butb rather what we should be doing is to think and live differently with intention.; Now to me, this hold strong truth to me personally cuz as someone who is easily influenced , I personally feel like this verse does relfects to me in so many ways, and you guys would soon see it in a moment. Again, this verse does have a connection to the trends I was mentioning about earlier. I won't good too much in detail since I've already ad spoken about it, but I wouold rather go brief on it just to avoid repetition. You see how we live in a world where constant beauty standards are changing every single time rapidly, & how women and girls espcially contantly compare themselves to others or change themselves constantly to get validation or attention. We can already identify that social media has a very HUGE FACTOR of how our minds and choice are shaped, whenevr if we want to believe that or not. I don't know, but for me personally I think changing yourself to get the attention and validation for others would be exhausting in a way you feel constant puressure from other people both online especially & in real life. I hear women all the time saying.. "I do this for myself, not for others." or the other saying told to them that "Do whatever you want that makes you empowering." Now don't get me wrong, having this mindset is wonderful and I do believe we should all be having this mindset, but the real questions we should always ask ourselves are... 'is what I'm doing is bringing me happiness or this is something others want from me?" or.. 'is this what I'm doing is pleasing the Lord or man?' When we start to reflect on ourselves and ask these questions to ourselves, this is where we get the true awnser. I know there would be some people who woulod defensive & start to argue on me, but it is imiportant to examine ourselves when we sit & reflect by asking questions like this. When we start to here are people who say they don't do things for other people, but deep down I can tell this isn't the case for everyone. How I know this is because those people come out first-handed or eventually stop doing that thing they like previously because of how they've been experiencing burnout or the feeling of not being themselves. Do you now understand how trends hold a strong power of our minds intellectually & how it connects to the other scriptures of what I spoken about earlier? I can point out too that this can definetly apply to romantic relationships where modern romantic relationships showcase couples having pre-martial sex without having the commitment of getting married first & how the secular world normalizes power imbalance or mistreatment in these kinds of relationships. One important one I did witness for a while now is behaviour. I'm pretty sure most people would be aware how in the world of social media, we see people often react quickly and not properly knowing how to maintain their emotions without stopping themselves to take their time to relfect. This verse on it's own has a huge constrast to how the real world goes aganist this through bibicial femninity, and you guys would soon later realized why it is the case. For bibicial femninity, it really does point out some good values which we should be having as Christian women since we should be rooted in our faith & not be easiloy influenced. Things that a bibicial femninime woman would do is that she would stay true to who she is as a person & consistent to her values instead of allowing trends to shape her views or to control her, choose her dignity & values instead of blindly following trends, being intentional of her own relationships, and more importantly.. having her own identidy of her faith & choosing what she does and say wisely. When we as Christian follow along God's design by living with purpose and clarity by not chasing to see people's validation, this is where we find rooted identidy from Christ & live our lives intentionally (‘. • แต •. `)
As we are jumping back to another Sirach verse, let us discuss about Sirach 36:24-26 where it does have a connection to the other scriptures I've spoken about earlier. This is an extremely vauable verse which I think personally is important for the women like me who are either arlready married or if they are like me who wants to enter through marriage as a vocation to be a devout wife to a God-fearing man. As you guys may be aware from now, I've mentioned earlier that marriage should have a sense of direction & purpose for both husband & wife. How this can connect to Sirach 36:24 is what I'm pointing out to you guys right here is that I find it in the modern world once again, people don't don't value their romantic or married relationships as if they are treating them as its disposable or temporary. Sadly this has been already been seen now and then even through how you see people openly being abusive to their spouses on social media especially. Thing is when it comes to marriage is that two spouses are made in one body not only exchanging their vows & showing their love through their kisses or by having sex, rather it shows something even more deeper- which shares how the relationship shows something more meaningful and sarious. I'm sure many of you guys reading this may hear me saying why as Christian women we should value the relationships- even married or romantic onces we have in our lives, which is what this verse is pointing out to. You guys should aloready know how this can connect to bibical femninity, so I'm not going to go through it again since I'm sure many of yous could get an idea of what this means. Sirach 36:25 does point out something bigger which we as people do lack (& I mean strongly lack) when it comes to relationships with others, & I have experiences that I want to share in a moment The verse emphasizes on how when we don't set up protection or boundaries for ourselves, things can truly fall apart. There are people even til' this day where they don't have boundaries they've set for themselves where they had people take advantage or walk all over them like as if they're a rug because they are either too nice or their scared to create conflict when someone did something which bothered them. I can say too that the same thing can apply to for emotional boundaries where there are some people where they rushed into relationships when they first meet the person without knowing too much about them, or when there is too much destruction and drama through relationships their in. Now you guys may be wondering- how can this reflect back to me. Here's one thing about me. During my younger years in my life when I was a child up to being a pre-teen, I often had people who would take my kindness out for granted by pressuring me to do things that either can get me into trouble or just things I don't feel comfortable doing. During that time I was scared to say the word 'no' to them because of how I didn't like to talk to adults about what the other kids are doing to me & how I feared of being disliked or getting made fun of by the kids who were using me for their dirty work. This was during the time I didn't know how to set standards for myself because I was so blinded believing that's this is normal & thats what's friendship is all about when really it isn't. During my younger years, I didn't had the opportunity to hang around other kids at my age because of how sheltered I was by being surrounded with adults being overbearing due to me being young and having a disability. It does explain to me why I feel threatned whenever it comes to meeting new people, even those who try to befriend me based through me having to face that traumatic experience in my childhood. Even though however I am slowly recovering from that experience, good thing things are better now currently than it was a couple of years ago. I can see how other people may be experiencing the same thing where they had people who are 'frends' but are mistreating them, which is why I am praying for them that they find the sense of grounding to enforce their own boundaries on themselves ♡ The reason this verse does have a connection to bibicial femninity on it's own is because it shows a bibicial femninme woman stay grounded of her own boundaries without allowing people to walk all over her. How she does this is that she setted up clear boundaries & self-respect, taking her time to build trust on the person, and yes more importantly.. to create order by remaning peaceful & respectful. I wish I can go back and tell my younger-self of this sooner & still am battling & recovering from my past trauma, but now as I am reflecting on this scripture & learning the conext of this, this is what this verse is emphasizing ♡
ooooo!~ this one I've been waiting for discussing for! (∩˃o˂∩)♡ ok~ 1 Cortinthians 11:4 does point out one major thing which I do strongly stand for, & that is that we should always show reverence and respect during worship & in sacred spaces, especially when we are in Mass. Understand now this had ties to modesty? No? We'll go through this together despite how it is very important (& I mean extremely important) for us as Christian women to be mindful of. Again- this is going to cause an uproar to many people, so I would suggest you sit down and listen or read by understanding what I need to say gently & why this connects to bibical femninity. Remember what I mentioned earlier where I made it clear modesty can be shown based on how we act & how we present ourselves to others? The reason why I am intentionally talking about this does point out something very important for us to keep in mind of. I've been seeing several Christian women even non-Christian women treating sacred places such as Mass & church as for example as their casual spots to hang out or to start fooling themselves in. Another thing that I made & other Christian women made as an observation is that some people in the world won't take their faith or worship seriously & show no interest by simply getting distracted. The problem that a lot of us are seeing in this modern age is that we are witnessing a lot of women (including Christians) dressing in a manner where it is innapropiate, such as wearing revealing clothing where it showcases their lady areas; crotch, breasts, or bum area, or wearing a kind of clothing that isn't appripiate to something that is sacred. For me all in my life, I was brought up & taught by my own mother & other female figures in my life to look presentable no matter what time of the day or setting you are going to. When I was younger child, my mother would dress me well by having me put on dresses and having my hair being well-kept & not too messy. This was a thing from my upbringing & my culture I was in since whenever you are going to traditional places or sacred areas or events, you must be well-presentable & well-kept. My mother taught me this through since I was very young and this is why self-image is one of my strong values. Not in a vainglory way, but more if a neat & hygenenic yet modest way as this verse is talking about. Now this is my understanding of what modesty & femninity is to me through the dressing-level modesty (which is where I began to develop a love for fashion & makeup throughout my erlier years of my life up til' now (⌒‿⌒) I still carry this mindset & tradition up to this day as a teenager trascitioning to a young adult, because if Jesus was standing right up of my face, there is no way I would dressing myself in a way where I look unkept or wearing clothes where it reveals too much skin. I remember back in the day in the 19th-20th century & much farther from the earliest centuries, modesty is an unspoken rule which every girl & women should be aware & mindful of no matter what culture, wealth status, or even religion or denomination you're from, even when your in sacred places such as a church for example. Keep in mind this is based from facts through historical evindence, not by word-to-word through my own opinion. Oh- and this doesn't apply to us as women only, this definetly does apply to men too, except were on the topic of femninity, so we are going to stay on topic. I can see this verse reflecting on the secular world through social media infleuce where you have others publicy online on the internet who either treat their faith too casually & not taking it seriously or actively blurt out things that are blaphemous or blasphemeing sacred things, or how you have people online or in real life rushing when it comes to prayer carelessly or treating their faith as something that is unimportant or disposable. This isn't me shaming anyone who does these things, but I'm mentioning these things just to get a cleaer picture of what this verse is emphasizing. I made observations myself online where I see some other secular people saying blaphemous things of Jesus & for some both worldy people non-Catholic Christians say blapshmeous things of Our Lady, & this is something I made an observation for pretty much some time now, & I'm sure other Catholics would say the same thing too. I know the constrast of the secular world & femninist beliefs sound & seem pretty dense to most people who are reading this, but on the lighter note- bibicial femninity shows a flipside of what this verse tells us that we SHOULD be doing. Let me allow myself to divide and chunk it down to small parts (。・ฯ・。) When it comes to us as Christian women enter through places that are sacred & holy (ie. Mass for example), we should already have an understanding that worship is intended to be sacred- meaning something that is treated as holy. I don't need to be the one to say this other part since a lot of you reading this should be aware of this by now, but whenever we are in sacred areas or places, we need to be mentally present & active & behaving in a way that is respectful. I know some people who are going to a church for the first time or haven't been there for a while may not be aware ot might of forget of the rules, which is why we should be the ones setting an example & gently reminding them the etiquette of church behaviour. As we simply behave in a way that is modest in sacred areas even in Mass, this is where reverence for the Lord & His presence becomes intentional. Another main important thing for bibical femninity that should be told directly as Christian women is- modesty. I don't need to tell you guys this in detail because many of you guys should have an understanding of this by now, no matter how old you are or how you understand modesty both behaviorally and through how we dress, but it's good to remind others of this because this is one of the main center words through this topic of femninity. This is similiar to the church behaviour one except through dressing- there is a time & place for everything. Why I say this is because wearing a kind of clothing may not be a appropiate based through the timing or the place or setting your in. This does apply when we go to church because this is a place where we show reverence to the Lord, Jesus Christ. See this- when you go to have a meeting with King of England or Pope Leo XIV or your HR manager for your job interview for the job you want to get in, would you be wearing tight bodycon dress to the point where they are too short where it reaches your crotch-area & your peach buns are showing? Obviosuly the awnser is no- especially when you are meeting the person for the first time. I remember people online talking about how there was a woman who showed up to her job interview wearing biker shorts & refused to change after her HR manager told her to. This is the same thing whenever we are are going to a place where it's centered to Jesus, such as Eurcharist Adoration & Mass altogether. When we plan out an outfit of the day no matter what style of clothes you wear, it's always important to relfect & evaluate ourselves by asking ourselves this question.. 'Does this reflect on my dignity & respect for the place I'm wearing this to?" Now before someone says this- this is about shaming someone of what clothing they wear, rather it brings in self-awareness. There are people in the world, even adult women especially, where they lack self-awareness of the clothes they wear outside of their house based on the setting they're in. Before someone mention to me that I'm being judgemental, I'm not here to condemn others of how they dress- rather this is me revealing why we can't wear certain clothing that is on store or it's designed in this world or what is trending online as Christian women. You see my dear readers- when we start showing awareness & reverence of the clothing we wear or how we style them, this is where modesty truly shows from how we present ourselves หแตห
Okie let's jump onto the next verse now. This verse 1 Cortinthians 11:5 already showcases something which does connect to what I mentioned earlier, except it does show that modesty is a sign of humility, honor, & reverence when we showcase it through worship. Another huge thing of what this verse speaks on about what I like is how a woman who wears a head covering symbolizes modesty, dignity, & respect. It even shows a sign of humility, meaning- that she knows that she isn't worthy & shows reverence that God is present. half od the people who are reading this may be confused, but not to worry!, I am here simply am going to explain why this has a strong connection to bibical femninity & how the modern world with femninist beliefs views this. Now when Saint Paul (the man who travelled to the church of Corinth & written this book of the Bible) was there ministering in that area, the environment where he is surrounded where he saw a woman covering her head with worship. I am already aware that many Christians from different faith practices or denominations may see or practice this differently, however in the Catholic faith- veiling says more than a woman wearing a partcial or a full yard of white or black lace fabric or a shawl, ww ๊(≧▽≦) the deeper message of modesty means more than a woman covering herself, which does have a connection to the following such as.. self-respect, reverence, modesty, & more importantly.. intentional presentation. Some of you guys may be wondering- what does this have any connection to this verse? Welp, here is how I can compare the contrast to the real world which is going to ring a bell to many of you. You see in the modern culture- there is much of a repetitve pattern where people don't dress for themselves but rather use it to seek the wrong attention from the wrong crowd of people, even if they don't feel comfortable doing these stuff or it doesn't reflect their own character. I can definetly say how this can apply when it comes to social media or where people use self-espression with zero intentions of reflection. How it can be seen this way you may ask? It's traces back of people having the mindset of.. "I can do whatever I want, I don't care about the consequences or what others think." One last thing that I feel personally it is important for me to point out that there are people who sadly have the belief where modesty = having no confindence or hiding yourself from the shame you've had. Understand too that this is the same mindset that people online & in real life are carrying even up to this day, which we all know by me emphasizing the virtue of modesty, we know all of these are untrue. I have one thing I would like to share about the interesting thing to me about veiling ̤̮ In Africian culture, specically in Western Africa, it's common to see women wearing head scarves all the time. It holds a lot of strong meanings silently to others, such as holding strong cultural identidy, fashion, verstability & practicallity for everyday-life, and more importantly- for religious reasons. The head scarves arent worn the same as you see in the Latin Rite or Western churches, however it is a sign of humility & reverence because of what this verse does emphasizes. Head scarves in Africa can be worn in so many ways for different purposes, however in a sacred setting such as church, it usually is reflected of a woman showing signs of piety & obedience. Because of how the whole continent is enitrely socially and traditionally conservative & the majority of the population are all Christians, it is important to see how it reflects back to dressing with intention & dignity, both culturally & spiritually. How this caught onto me is how I grew up all in my life seeing all the older & eldery woman wearing head scarves not only for everyday practical life, but through sacred spaces like church as for exmaple. I don't know, but I thought it would be nice to share this on here, especially how I would love to hear through you guys how your culture practice head coverings when it comes to you going to church under this comment section of this blog ☺️ there are times where I would style my viel in a African-way for practical & fashion reasons, however most of the time I usually would simply drape my mantillia veil to make it look in a way it's identical to Mama by sometimes cliping the ends together ๐ ๐ I don't know, but to me I find it different how different Christians from different cultures practice veiling through various ways, even in my previous church before I've moved & converted to Catholicism ๐ this is why you see a number of women married or not veil during Mass, not because they are doing it for a fashion statement, but something more deeper spiritually which is to show respect & humility to Our Saviour, which to me personally I would love to see more Catholic women & girls veil, makes me so happy, tee hee~ ₍แต•แด•แต₎ another cool thing about the colours of viels hold a lot of meaning: black = a woman who is married or spiritually mature in her faith & white = someone who is a virgin/pure & is unmarried ๐ nowadays colour don't matter no more since the Second Vatican Council has passed several years ago, ww- however there are still some women (including me) who still chooses to stick to tradition by continuing to veil at every mass, ww. Whenevr I'm wearing my veil, I always make it look cute in a way it makes my outfit look cohesive & cute, I don't know, I'm just girly in a way to make things look cute (> •́)แ⊹ ࣪ ˖ I could be wrong on that one so please feel free to correct me in a respectful way ๐๐พ Believe it or not- this is one of the most understood yet overlooked verse a lot of people have difficulty understanding, and you guys would soon later see why in a moment. You see folks.. in the modern world- there are some women who view a woman dressing & acting modesty as she's insecure or she self-loathes herself in a way where she hides her own guilt. Truth is on the bigger picture, this isn't really the case, and the reason to this is because of how more and more people are coming out that they feel confindent by dressing modestly compared to when they were doing the opposite. The issue that lies under through this thinking isn't only misunderstandment, but rather it leads through something even more bigger I would like to point. As society showcases more women showing too much skin & revealing lady areas which shouldn't be shown to the whole world to see, its very important for us as Christian women to be mindful by now of what modesty truly means. We should already be aware by now that beauty does reflect my inward character & outward care by not being approval-dependant from other people of this world. Another thing to that I need to mention is that when it comes to freedom, yes God has given us all free will- but we need to be mindful in a way where freedom becomes throughtfu; & reflective, not something we should treat carelessly. That's why when it comes to women in the church veiling, they're aren't doing it for no reason at all, rather it's a sign of modesty & reverence. The other day my dad asked me why I am wearing a veil on my head every Sunday at Mass, and I gently have to hell him why I choose to veil, ww. Because of this, that's why this scripture is encouraging more women to veil when there are in the presence of God ♡ Now before gets the wrong message- this verse isn't saying that women are less vauable or they should be ashmaed of themselves, rather it's bring an important & vauable meaning, which is how we present outselves that can reflect on our values, dignity, and respect for ourselves and God. That's what modesty truly means in another level ♡
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| Her veil & lace fabric looks so cutetiful ♡ I would love to create my veil like this ๐ป |
This is the last verse out of all of these scriptures which is 1 Cortinthians 11:6, which simply emphasizes on something which you guys already see me saying from the last paragraph. The passage can come of as harsh to a lot of people, but what it simply means by Saint Paul saying this through his idea is pretty simple & straightforward; how we present ourselves & our own behaviour can reflect on our attitude towards sacred things. Why does it mean that? Simple, it ties into the idea of modesty, humility, revenrence, & dignity. There are some people who may get the wrong message and think this is humiliation because of the passage says, but I promise you that's not the context of the verse & we are all are going to explore this together of how this connects to femninity o( ˶^▾^˶ )o There are some elements of this verse that are completely similiar to the previous one, so I would breifly explains the whole context behind them & how & why it connects to femninity. You guys already get the idea how this connects to us being in sacred buildings & modesty, so I won't bother going through it again because I know you guys are smart people & should have a full understanding of these topics by now, ww (´∀｀) You know what I am going to touch on the topic of this verse- people rejecting tradition automatically. The reason I say this as someone who is both traditionally & socially conservative is how sacred & traditional values & tradtions were use to shape not only society alone, but how people properly function knowing how to behave & how they speak as well from the past even up to now. Because of how everyone is leaning more to progressive values as decades has past & the society gets more advanced, it gets to the point where people see the Church teachings & values as meaningless to the point they reject it to believing in things that are either are sinful or are contradictory to God's truth. This is no surprised that there are some Christians who are like this too, which makes them completely lukewarm cuz you can't have one foot in the Church & the other in the word. If we already admit it truthfully, a lot of conservative traditons came from both scripture & Church teachings which still did remain the same for centuries worldwide despite how the population is mostly filled with people who are Christian of different sects, however mostly from the Catholic faith. The world from the past since centuries ago has most cultures all arond the world use to be conpletely conservative, but now it isn't since it's slowly shifting to become progressive. Before someone tells me this- this has nothing to do anything that is political (which isn't what this post is about,) rather this is pointing out sacred tradition & natural law that God has setted for not only us as women, but for both us and men as well. Sure, some traditions are cultural, but most of then traces back from Church teachinngs & the Bible. Sometimes I've been told from different people that my views & values are backwards, prude, old-fashioned, or in the modern language in my generation since I'm a Gen-Z, people would describe someone who is traditional using the adjective as an insult- slow. This was very internesting to reflect on since someone had told that directly to me in the messages on my social media when I was avocating for the unborn children a couple months ago in Jaunary. While neither of these words didn't bother me at all, it does somewhat had me reflect why people choose rebellion by believing in the lies of the world. No, I did not go out of my way to push my beliefs on others, but I do believe that the Holy Spirit can touch peoples hearts by allowing Himself to transform them & how He respects our choice of free will if we choose to accept His truth & follow Him or not. Everything we do in this world we choose and serve the consequences at the end of the day, even once we hit Judegment Day ┐(´∀｀)┌ one thing I remember is how my teacher told me how she mentioned that the population of Christians of this world are slowly shrinking because of how people are not only leaving Jesus, but they're rejecting tradition by following the progressive & femninist movements of this world. She even explains how half of them are craddle Catholics who are renouncing their faith with Christ in this world to follow beliefs & ideas that are sinful & contradictory to God's truth. To me I find this very sad because this form of rebellion to me is what the enemy uses as a tactic to decieve souls to lead them astray from our beloved Shepard. I can see people may experienced hurt from the people from the church, but it doesn't give a valid excuse to reject the tradtion entirely (￣ใ￣) altough we live in a world where the enemy use his attacks through many ways of this world through people, movies, & other form of medias both social media & real life, there are a couple major yet beautiful things I would like to point out which reflects on bibicial femninity (* ^ ฯ ^) when people in the world say.. "Old traditions are stupid & are false," here is one major thing as Christian women we should have clear yet simple understandings of tradtions that hold place of this world. I do not care which culture, country, or even area of where you are from, either way- I would like for many of you readers to stay here to hear this. When it comes to bibicial femninity, we need to understand that some traditions that are hold in place are meant to reflect on humility, reverence, & sacred meaning. Sure, I know a lot of people even those around my age would think it's stupid or boring, but there is a reason why God have us to follow these traditions as Christians. Sure, I understand we live in a confusing time in the world, but when we step back & understand why these sacred traditions hold place in society as a whole, this is where we develop a clear understand of what the Church & scripture teaches. I didn't talked about this verse on this paragraph for no reason, rather because this has a truly & unfiltered connection of bibical femninity which we as Christian women should be mindful of. If you are struggling to understand or are angry why the Church holds these traditions in place, I would suggest you pray to God these questions & he'll gently reveal it to you in place, or you can simply ask a leader in the Church who will help you connect the dots („• แด •„) but nonetheless, the whole conext of this verse is that it emphasizes that how we present ourselves & act does reflect on our own attitude of sacred things, which I think it's very important for me to point out through this topic of femninity (เน•᎑•เน)
Anywayssss it's time to move on to the next scripture >แด< this one is already similiar to Genesis 3:16 which I'm sure many of you guys would instantly or slowly make a connection to the next scripture. Now Genesis 2:18 is already similiar of what I've mentioned earlier from the other scriptures, but what the verse is emphasizing is that God created both men and women to support each other through companionship & relationship. Rememeber what I mentioned earlier that God designed both men and women to work together as teammates? ๐ There is a reason why I didn't say that for no reason. There are several people I believe who may be confused why God designed us to be this way as women, which you guys would later soon learn why this verse means this way. I would be making comparisons again through the lenses of the secular word, so pay attention closely. if you want to learn about this. I am going to keep it brief however since I know the things I've said would sound similiar to what I mentioned earlier. I feel like in the world personally, it promotes this kind of feeling where it pushes extreme or a unhealthy amount of independance. Don't get me wrong, there is aboustely ZERO ISSUE of doing things on your own, but when it gets to the point where it builds up a spirit of pride, this is where it becomes an issue. Cuz of why, you may ask? It's going to bring in isolation & loneliness which is what we are observing in this world in this present day. There are people who work in long hours of work where they don't ask anyone or help or have no sense of communication towards another person (which I would refuse to have a job like this & I have no plans of working in a future, ww.) I also feel like too personally that in today's society, some people see connection as a weakness or a threat, which believe it or not this used to be me from the past during my younger years. I was isloating myself and shutting off other people at my zone to the point I don;t see any value in relatiosnships & not asking anyone for help. The cause isn;t because I hated people (which is a partical reason,) but rather its due to the long-term social anxiety from the people who've hurted me from the past when I was little & during mt early teen years. Everything is now fine now even through I am naturally introverted, ww (˶หแห˵) one thing I would like for everyone reading this is God didn't create human beings to be alone or to isolate ourselves. I know there are people out there who are shut-ins and keep themselves away from the society, but there is a reason why God created us as human beings to connect with one other & work with others, eespecially us as women. Through the bibical direction of femninity, God's design shows something that is yet powerful- that He wants us to know & understand that companionship is valuable & healthy relationships matter no matter what kind of relationship it is, even especially when it comes to male-female relationships of some kind. When it comes to us having healthy relationships, it also means that we must support one person and another during times when the person is struggling or when they are in trouble. I can see this can be hard for some people due to past experiences or dealing with anxiety, but when the first half of the verse mentions "It is not good that the man should be alone," it simply gives away a powerful meaning that God designed human relationships to be meaningful & not isolating. That's why as I am writing this now for the people who are isolated that they can hopefully find a sense of communication & connection altogether ♡ The last vpart of the verse where it mentions "...I will make him a helper" already reveals something that I've been saying countlessy throughout this whole blog by now. I know some people reading this still don't have a complete understand what this fully means, which is why I am here to break this down through the constrast of both modern femninism through modern beliefs & bibical femninity •แด• now!~ some of the people who may still be reading this may get the wrong iimporession of the word 'helper' mentioned in this other half od this verse. In other scriptures in the Bible, God Himself is called as a helper through other books of the Bible & from other saints, even in Psalms & Proverbs (เน•᎑•เน) the whole idea of the word of it's context is it refers to partnership therefore two people working together. Here is where things turn into a wrong path through the lenses of femninism. When women & girls in this world hear this word, they would get the first impression of someone showing they are weak or oppressed by the person having no voice or being controlled. While those cases do happened in this world & society to other women, I am here to say this gently that this isn't what a helper truly is & is going againist of what God wants to treat another human being. This can go back & tie back where there is competition to both men and women of "who's in control?," which we all know that can result into power imbalance & power struggles altogether. When it comes to bibical femninity, it does point out one important thing when it comes to human relationships. One thing in which this other half of this verse does point out is that when it comes to someone being a role of a helper through the bibical lenses, it has a whole complete different meaning to what people in the modern world would think. Through a bibical understaning, someone who is a helper means someone who is valuable, hardworking, & supportive to their partner whenever if it's their partner, their friends, etc. Somethig I see that I think worldy relationships lack of which makes it a halthy balanced relationship is that someone would see someone else struggling empotionally & instead of them leaving them & acting careless, they take it another steo further to encourage & support them. Because of why people may confuse this as inferiorty, a simply bibical understanding of this is that for a healthy relationship, it has to involve teamwork, coperation for both parties (male & female,) & mutural care. As a result, this is where partnership builds up and not rivarly, which is what I think we should build up and encourage more when it comes to bibical femninity when modern femninism opposes this mutraul encouragement แฆ(รฒ_รณห)แค
Another thing which this Song of Soloman verse did touch on is that passage which reads "My bride," which can simply translate to the word relfecting on honor & comittment with a sense of exclusivity. Let me break this down using the constrast of the secular world of how society views this differently. You see.. in modern marriage or dating culture, a lot of secular people would picture a bride as someone who is secretive ro use causally & a woman who is emotionall careless. What does this mean? In the modern world, people are in relationships that aren't committed, a raltionship where they are only there for a certain situation in their life. Those kinds of relationships are called "situationships" because there isn't any committment being made & the parties are married or dating to each other for some contract or another situation their in. You guys would commonly see these things a lot through famous people like actors & actresses or even influencers for example in their own personal lives, or in some cases- regular every-day people where they have daily tasks & errands to take care. This is there the lines are being blurred which does result into emotional confusion & once again- unclear comittment to both of the parties. I heard someome mentioned before where he wants to date a girl but not marry her. To me that doesn't make any sense cuz if you want to date a woman, you need to have a clear sense of direction & committment to her. This is a serious issue in this modern age, people are in relationships but they don't bother taking the committment seriously. Keep in mind also that in theese kinds of relationships there is always toxcitity of some sort through dishonesty and disloyalty to one another. I don't have to be a dating expert to know this, it's just simple common sense to know that you can't date or marry someome with zero committment or direction at all, otherwise it just shows you are not ready to be in a married or romantic relationship at all & you should re-evaulate on yourself if you are doing this for the best intentions for yourself & for your other partner or not. Mind you this doesn't go for those particular individuals, this goes for everyone who is reading this. I know what I said may upset people, but if you really reflect on youself asking this questions.. "is this person who I'm with is going to honor & commit to me down the road?," this is where you would find your real awnser. I can't awnser that for you guys since I'm not a mind reader, but when your having a relationship with someone currently, it's always best to re-evaulate yourself asking this question first & then the Holy Spirit would speak to you through your conscience. On the lighter note, bibical femninity does point out one thing which is completely the opposite of modern views & femninism. Bibicial femninity values clarity, commitment (please keep that in your back of you head,) honesty, & loyalty. Understand that the world bride in this context of this verse also does reflect on something even more deeper. What can that be exactly. It reflects on something more vauable in a relationship such as having devotion, respect, & ore importantly.. sacred love. It's very interesting cuz when we openly value & honor the relationship with the other person, this is where commitment builds security & peace (●'◡'●)
Isaiah 32:9-11 does already reveal a couple of things which I did mentioned earlier from the other scriptures, but I am more than happy to talk about it more in a deeper level for those who are struggling to grasp into ( ´ ▽ ) starting off by the first one Isaiah 32:9, the verse context emphasizses on something we should all be careful of. Now what is it exactly? The meaning of the saying of the passage "Rise up, you women who are at ease" is a warning if we aren't careful & are becoming too comfortable or careless of your own sin or being spritually asleep. I don't want to say this to scare others or bring in a negative light even through I'm not a negative person at all of any form, rather this is said to us as a warning aganist these things when we go down that path for every Christian wimen to be aware of, which I am more than happy to go down this rabbit hole why it means this way & has any connection to bibical femninity. We see in the modern secular world every single day where other people (even us too!) live through our own comfort & avoid deeper relfection & prayer spriritually. Another example I would love to point out too is how we tend to care only about what is trending online or for temporary pleasures. I know for me this isn't the case for me anymore as it used to from the past since I don't even bother chasing for trends or what is popular online or in-stores. From before when I was younger I had that kind of FOMO, but now as I got older and let go from these temporary pleasures, I stopped caring or don't follow every trend I see online & discern if this is worth following or buying or not. One thing I personally think I do struggle with living through my own comfort where I don't want to live through my own comfort by avoiding myself to be challenged & living by fun. I understand it is a good & healthy way to do what is comfortable for us, but the problem is where we don't take the effort to build up a deeper meaning or to challenge ourselves. Yes people may be upset or shocked why it means this way, but the reason as to why it is like this when comfort becomes a bad thing is because it can result to us not growing our lives spiritually. People may think this isn't a bad thing... but it is whenever if we want to believe it or not. From the past, I used to be this one girl where I dodge responsibility & reflection and only crave for comfort through entertainment & pleasure. I am thankful where I grew up with adults in my life where they convince me to clannage myself not only mentally & physically, but also spritually as well. I am thankful in a way where I grew up with parents who do encourage me, cuz I know sadly not everyone in the world had adults in their lives where it makes the person be disciplined or hard-working in a sense they're doing it for God. To me this is where I have an issue with is that we are so desensitized to distracting outselves through every little temporary desires we have to the point we never think deeply through our own lives & walk with Jesus. This is the same way when we are both spsirtually & emtoionally asleep. A lot of you guys may be wondering- But Miyu, what do you mean by that exactly? Simple, what this means through a simplier lenses is how we are obstinate to not accept correction from others not wanting to improve ourselves through ignoring our own flaws. Listen to this carefully cuz I know what I am going to say may ruffle some feathers of some people. now.. when I mean through me mentioning how this verse talks about both emotional & spritual sleepiness, we see people constantly making the same mistakes all over again such as constantly desensitizing themselves to dropping a swear word or blasphemeing the Lord's name every single time whenever they start talking. Same thing can apply where you had someone saying mean things to other people. When someone contronts them or puts them on the spot of their own mistakes or what their doing is wrong, you may get two responses back from the person who is getting contronted. #1: they would ignore your advice & not care what you've told them and continue with the same mistakes again and again or.. #2: they would say to your face with the saying.. "This is just who I am." ๐ฌ I don't want to sound as judgemental or condesencing by me saying this.. but this isn't a good way to say this to justify the lack of growth for anyone to use & if someone is going to directly tell this to me, there is zero way I would be tolerating that at all. I know there is always time & room for improvement for many of us who are reading this & even for me as I am writing this- so no, there is no way I'll be taking an excuse of people saying this to me whenever or after I confronted them of their wrongdoing or the mistake they've done in a gentle manner, even when I become a mother in a next couple of years through my own children or even my own friends or family memebers. This does have an affect on us as Christian women because we tend to always choose comfort because we believe that is the easy way out whenever God had put us into a situation to strengthen our faith with Him. I remember back then from my Evangelical Penecostal church I went to from the past before I've moved into a Catholic Church currently shortly after where a pastor is having a whole sermon about spritual stagnantion. I couldn't remember the exact things he said throughout the whole sermon, but what I remember about the whole thing of it is the fact how the whole theme centered around spritiual stagnation. Mind you back then, I didn't care to understand what those things were since my faith with God was non-existent & I wasn't taking it very seriously, but again as I am now reflecting back on this, I do now understand the passage of where the pastor is coming from. Good thing as I am talking about this verse, I found a prayer off from Instagram where it does align to this Isaiah verse (´｡• ฯ •｡) Allow me to carefully explain & compare this through the lenses of bibical femninity. Before someone or a group of people mistakes me by saying that women should not have fun by enjoying life or feeling comfortable, this is NOT what I am saying through this verse, & I want everyone here to carefully pay attention of how bibical femninity & the restored version sees this verse through it's context. Remember what I mentioned before earlier through this paragraph where we refuse to improve on ourselves by simply not wanting to grow? Bibical femninity sees a godly woman being willing to grow by accepting constructive feedback from other people to better themselves spritually & intellectually. Another thing of what a femninime bibical woman does do is show uses her own self-growth to grow and become more wiser & spritiually & emotionally mature, & reflecting on herself honestly by making time for herself to strengthen her own walk with Jesus through prayer, reflection, wisdom, & more importantly.. growth. This is where I think I find as an issue to most of us in this world- we always choose of what is easier & what is safe for us instead of allowing ourselves to challnage ourselves to live through purpose or to make self-improvement on ourselves. The world likes to promote comfort on us almost every single time, & I feel personally this isn't any different through the world of social media where you had people subconciously or not encouraging others to live through their comfort zone. The question we should be asking ourselves is.. "what is this one thing God is challenging me to do that I've been avoiding?" or.. "when would I step out of my comfort-zone?" To a lot of people it isn't an easy thing to do because we've got so used to living our lives through convenience or we are just scared or fearful of losing of what we are familiar with- which does explain why a lot of people refuse to challenges themselves. I had two of my friends who don't like experiencing change or challenging themselves due to those two major reasons, but it doesn't excuse us to allow ourselves to stay in a rut where we lack self-growth the Lord wants for us as His faithful children. This verse does apply to me through some way of me through my life because I struggle a lot to accept feedback from others & allow myself to grow spritually & emotionall. I know there are some people in this world where they are stubborn to what I stated of what bibical femninity relfects, which is why I pray for them as I am typing this for them to allow themselves to grow through self-imporvement. I don't mean self-improvement to constsiently do the same thing again and again, but to allow the Lord & trusted adults or leaders to assist you to better your spritual life. This really needs to me told to us as women & girls alike, which is why I intentionally included this verse through the mid-way of this blog to also say this for other Christian's benefit & what bibical femninity reflects on (⌒‿⌒)✨
Isaiah 32:10 has a passage where it says "Hear my voice.." which is has a already pretty straightforward meaning behind it, but I would defiently make sure to go and emphasize it cuz believe me- this is what we all need to hear (including me) & to be gently reminded of from the Lord ('''– ⌓ –)＝๏ผyou guys should already have a similiarity to those lines by now since those are the same words mentioned through the book of Psalms (⌒ฯ⌒) I won't talk about this one too much since this one is already simple & easy for many of you guys to understand, but what this verse does emphasize through these lines is simply that we should always be listening to God through humility, obedience, & through reflection. This means that we should be listening to Him whenever He calls us to perform His own works through willing to have an open mind & heart & being open to relfection. You see how in the world where people would go out of their way to act stubborn or prideful? It's no different how those things do become sin but also a hindering block to the things which I've already stated earlier. Lets pull out an exmaple in the secular world which is one of the main one most of us struggle with- recieving advice. Before you guys would cause an uproar, sit and listen to what I have to say first. Let me point out one no one wants to do or it's hard for everyone to hear- no one likes the feeling of being corrected, even when it's done for our own good. Whenever we are being corrected from someone we love such as your friend, family memeber, boyfriend/husband, or even mentors, we are quick to get defensive by being quick to get angry or upset. believe me, they are many times where I felt this way whenever someone gently corrected me or put me on the spotlight for what I done wrong, & I'm highly confindent a lot of you guys as readers felt this way whenever someone gives you correction or advice. I'm not talking about unsolicited advice where someone gives you correction or advice you've didn't ask for which is a whole different seperate thing (which I find that extremely annoying when people do that, smh... (╬ ร﹏ร). I can see this happen through relationships of this world where someone in a romantic relationship would refuse to take accountability or responsibility for their own actions & began to blame it on her own partner by refusing to take the blame by apologizing and promising to never do it to them again. This does apply to married relationships, so married couples- don't think you guys are exempt from this, ww. I spoken about it earlier why this isn't good and can hinder the stability of a relationship, which most of you guys by now should already understand. And lastly yes!.. this does definetly apply to to the digital age of social media where yes- people blindly follow trends without any thought or simply rejecting any form of deeper discussion whenever someone creates a post of video regarding of a serious or moral issue or discussion. This is where again we don't use our heads and jump into social media trends without any thought. Before someone get's upset or is being mistaken, this isn't me shaming or shunning anyone, but is is very important for me to bring these up as I am discussing and reflecting on what this scripture says. Now this is where it connects to bibical femninity & the part where our ears and eyes should be open to recieve this message, cuz I feel you guys and I should be told this & I would be simply chunking it down through the examples I've provided. How a bibical feminime woman would recieve advice or feedback from another person or following trends she saw online is that she would take her time to listen to them & responding calmly by reflecting before reaction & think carefully & discern if the trend is wise or healthy for either for her own benefit or to bring her harm. Similiar thing can be said for romantic & married relationships altogether, which instead of responding in a manner where accountability isn't being taken, what a bibical femninime woman would do is yes, she may not agree what her partner or fiance had to say to her- but what she is doing is that she's showing signs of self-awareness & is willing to improve communication for both her and her own partner to make it clearer for them both. I understand that marriage is hard work, but ladies when we practice examining ourselves, this is where relationships are being strengthened. When we practice humility instead of pride which Jesus told us as believers to practice, this is where we allow ourselves improvement & self-growth, which results to teachability ˚ ༘ .˚๐ฑเญญ ˚. แตแต
The other passage from the second verse "I am a redeemer" does sounds very similiar ( ´ ▿ ` ) you guys should already know this saying by now because those are the same words which came from Jesus Christ Himself („• แด •„) the meaning behind this saying is super simple. What this mean by someone being a redeemer is that they are a provider & care for family responsibilities. Again, this goes back where a lot of modern relationships are commitment avoidant & emotional unstable. I don't have to point out the fact how many of the relationships of today's age are only temporary and are casual without any sense of purpose or meaning. You see my dear readers- when it comes to me saying that I am tradtionally & socially conservative, I mean I am strictly am in a way where that marriage are my strong values where I personally believe that there needs to have resposibility for both parties who are either in a romantic and married relationship. Many people in today's world would say my kind of thinking of marriage & romantic relationships is backwards or slow, but to me personally when I say order & comittment are the important elements of a healthy marriage that has Christ present, I beleive it has to be there. If neither of these things are present in a relationship, this is where I personally find a issue. I know everyone's romantic and married relationships are completely are different, but it's important to understand that there has to be a sense of purpose and meaning of a relationship. If I'm in a relationship with my man where he doesn't want to build any comitment or a purpose of meaning, this is where I know the relationships isn't going to last & things would go both sour bwteen the both of us. I highly doubt I would be in a situation in this since I'm still young and unmarried, & God has the perfect boy set aside for me somewhere where He would put me with someone who He knows what's best for me •ฯ • I don't need to talk more about this one since now I think a lot of you guys should understand this by now, www ๐ The restored vision through the lenses of bibical femninity is that a bibical femninime woman would reflect on her relationship with care, responsibility, protection, intention, & with mutrual respect. This is already simple why this is the case- but when this is being reflected through comitment & honorable intention, this is where loves truly becomes intentional & not careless. I don't know- but I feel like this is what a lot of modern relationships are lacking, but nonetheless I personally think it's important for me to point this out ･ ͜ส ･
my goodness I've been waiting to talk about this one, www (แ﹆แข﹆แซ) to me personally I think this is one the MOST IMPORTANT VERSES for me to talk about through this topic of this blog post แตแดแต there is a reason why I've intentionally included this one on here, which you guys would soon later figure it all out at the end of the paragraph ^-^ Samuel 16:7 somehow interestingly points out major thing about femninity that every woman and girl needs to hear about. Even in the rise cuurently on social media of the 'soft girl femninity' & 'trad wife aesthetic,' & even the 'proverb 31 woman' that is all over right now, it is very important for me to talk about this verse through it's own context & how I think of how it does have a connection to today's world. Now listen carefully if you've been this far because this would benefit you for your own good sprirtually & for other women and girls who are hearing this as well. I am not saying any of these are bad which they aren't, but as you guys are exploring with me through this blog, this is where you guys would truly understand what bibical femninity really is compared to the stuff we see online through posts or videos.What this verse itself talks about is that God cares only through the person's character & examine their heart & intentions. This verse does go back to when the prophet Samuel from the Old Testament is in Jesse's house to choose one of his eight sons to be the new King of Isreal. Samuel picked Jesse's eldest son who he only pay attention to his apperance and assumed he was the strongest, however God stopped him telling Samuel that he isn't the one He's looking for & only examine through their heart & not the boy's apperance. So what happened next is that God lead Samuel to pick David, who was a srawny small shepard boy at that time before he was chosen to be the leader as King of Isreal. I can see myself reflecting through this scripture from this year where I had a crush of this one boy in my class through love at first sight, and how I got the signal that he isn't the one for me from God the Almighty is simply he didn't acknowledge me whenever I say hi to him gently. Keep in mind this was time where I was too shy to talk to him until later where I gave him a little wave once he left the room before I got the final message from the Lord. It was short-lived, & after it happened my other teacher told me that was the sign from God that he isn't the one for me and it's time for me to move on. So I listened & obeyed Him cuz I know God has something more better & bigger planned for me as I said earlier- He setted aside a right man for me to partner with since He knows my desires very well than anyone else in the world ┐(´∀｀)┌ Some people reading this may not be aware of the context of the verse which I've explained just now, but there is a reason why I summarize this & willing to talk about it rthough this paragraph. So sit and listen what I have to say & how this connects to the real world & bibical femninity. Now the reason why I pointed out these trends and how it reflects back to this verse is because of how social media showcases the image of femninity through surface level through trends & fashion trends & not the deeper characteristic meaning of femninity. I know what I am going to say may anger or shock some people, but you can follow a woman who kneads bread or makes sourdough bread or puff patstry & wear long ribbons or large bows in her hair with a long floral prarie dress, or have a woman wearing all pink or pastel colours of some sort & have a super soft high-pitch voice and don't practice or show traits of femninity. Same thing goes for a Christian woman who presents herself modestly outwardly by quoting scriptures and all sorts of postive affirmations on her social media page. Sure, she may be doing these things, but she may not actually be practicing her bibical character of being a femninime woman. Yes, I said it, and I know how controversial it may sound for some readers, but I am going to explain further more why this is the case (；´∀｀) What I mean by saying this is that a woman looking a certain way where she's label online and real life as 'femninime,' could be the same woman who can act prideful or bitter to others or spreading gossip & hartred of others. I know many people won't like me saying this, but she can look femninime & can still be manipulative or deceptive. I can't judege people's hearts or intentions since that's not my duty & I don't have that authority, rather it is God who has the power to examine all of our intentions & characters, not human beings like us. I didn't provided these examples just to be hateful towards these women or out of jealously, but it forces you guys to see & reflect this scripture through a bigger picture. This isn't the case for every woman because that would be unfair of me by centering every modest woman who post online who are like this. There are several women who showcase outward femninity & also show their femninime traits through their chartacters, which to me I feel we should be uproot more for these women ( ´･ฯ･) You see, as human beings we have a linear view of things & our brains naturally get caught on how the person look. So because of this, we just assume right away by having an unconcious bias thinking "Oh!- this person is or has zyx, so I like them & think they are or this is _____________." This has always been a thing for human nature for a while since centuries, & God already knew this when He was guding Samuel to choose the new King of Isreal at that time. I don't think it had even changes in this world we are in, even through the modern age through social media where people blindlessly assume someone based on how they look, which does connect to what I've been saying multiple times from the past scriptures. Many people do not know this, but social media isn't real & it's a highlight reel by showing small & short segments of a person's life. It doesn't showcase how the woman is through close doors & her personal struggles she's facing, rather it shows us the handpicked moments selected by the woman who want's to display it to the world. People don't want to believe this, but that's the truth of how social media is designed from the beginning since it's been popular early of human history. Unfortunately this is what leads people through somewhat of a deception where they beleieve that outward femninity = true femninity. Don't get me wrong, I love wearing floral dresses & wearing assessories on my hair alongside baking & cooking & cleaning around the house by having dreams & goals of being in a farmhouse in the future, but when I mean bibical femninity means more than outward femninity, it really does means more- and how a woman looks and what activities she does isn't one of them. Yes, this is going to dissapoint or upset many people, but that's how it is. We can't blindly have a bias & assume some woman we saw online is femninime of how she dresses or how much she cooks or bakes. Bibical femninity is true femninity & reflects through inner character & not though apperance of a person. This is why I stated earlier why femninity means more than what the words means spiritually from the begiining when you guys first read this blog. Before this may threw other people off by getting the wrong message, allow me to gently look the constrast of what bibical femninity & the restored vision of what this verse means. Bibical femninity reflects on many standpoints of what this scripture's context speaks about. An example can be how you ca have a woman who doesn't wear fancy floral dresses or a certain color of clothing by having a soft aesthetic look, but rather she wears basic every-day/casual clothing or dresses that aren't trendy or popular & that are old and worn out yet wear little to no makeup yet still have femninime traits? Yes!, it's possible, and I'm highly confindent there are wonderful & beautiful women and girls who show more of their femninime traits through character & not worrying or caring about following trends or what they see through their feed or what the algorithm feeds them. Many people may be wonder.. "well what do you mean by that?" See folks, this is where people get thrown off cuz it draws back to where I've stated earlier where God cares about who the person is inwardly. Sure- she may not be doing any of the things compared to the other women online where they center themselves through aesthetic femninity or follow the trends of what the other girls are doing, but her character does showcase several bibical femninime traits I've been repeating through this blog all over again. People may not see this as a big deal, but this is what makes a woman unique & is a kind of person where God would look through inwardly & see through her intentions. We need to understand that some people who may be presenting themselves this way don't have the greastest intentions or just doing this to follow along with the crowd of what trends spew at them on social media. Not everything we see online or on our feed are real, and we do not know if the woman truly does precent themselves in that way theough their character or not. This is what I mean it is very very important to practice discernment. The restored vision through the lenses of bibical femninity is that a woman I brought up as an example shows caharacter traits of integrity, sincere faith, & lives through a prayerful life that has... self-control/temperance, kindness, wisdom, and yes- humility. There may be some Christian and non-Christian readers who would disagree with this, but when we explore in the truth through depth of what this verse means, it reflects on as a whole message in general that true (bibical) femninity is by what is lived through character, not just styled through outward apperances. It's so interesting for me to have this discussion where we live in such a weird digital time where people would label themselves for every trend & distort the true meaning behind it. I know what I said may upset others, but this is the truth of how it has been for a long time. Not that there is an issue, but this is where we are missing the point, and you guys would soon understand why. Fun fact to note that historiccally through centuries ago- the term femninity has no connection towards what we know of it today, rather through the historical lenses, femninity was seen through the traits such as modesty, grace, patience, dignity, wisdom, self-control/temperance, gentleness, & lots of other sords I've states through this blog so far. Christianity doesn't view femninity like this alone historically & up til' now as the full true meaning of the term is now peserved & protected, but it is also seen this way through cultural & classical traditions around the world through every continent & every country on the map. That's why you guys hear many historical & fictional literature where you hear a lot of stories when you were a child (& adult years too!) where the female character is gentle & carries herself intentionally through her own dignity. Not because how much pretty or cute she looks based on the clothes or how much makeup she wears, rather it through her own character of how she carries herself inwardly & relationally. Simple ways how femninity is reflected through a woman's character & conduct is simple show shows emotional grace, modesty & dignity, kindness towards others, calmness during conflcit she's in, & the most beautiful thing is she nurtures her own family & her own children, which is already how God designed us as woman from the beginning he created Eve from Adam's rib. This isn't saying beauty is a bad thing or dressing femininely & showcasing your aesthetic is wrong & sinful. Yes, I strongly can agree that outward femninity can reflect on creativity & beauty of a woman, but unfortunately this only shows femninity through a surface-level, and not through a sprirtual level where it can benefit a lot of woman and girls for our own good based of what the Lord wants for us ^_^" This is where one of the verses Proverb 31 & somewhere around 1 Peter is emphasizing about, and how I'll conclude this paragraph through the restored vision from bibical femninity is that people often judge others or have bias by other people's apperances, image, or their own aesthetics they carry, however the Lord cares only what the person carries inwardly through their own intentions & character. I feel this is one of the most powerful verses to redefine of what femninity is truly is & I am praying that hopefully more Christain women (like all of us as for example) would have the courage & strength to share it with others who do not know the truth of what this verse carries (เท˙แต˙เท)♡
phew!~ ฮต-(´∀｀; ) anyways lets allow ourselves to move on to the next scripture which is Judith 15:9-10 where it emphasizes on something already similiar to what I said earlier. I am going to go ahead & discuss about it again where people can get a refresher, so (ใ ´ ˘ `) the meaning of what this verse talks about starting off by Judith 15:9 is that it points out the passage saying "You are the glory of Jerusalem" which for some people might be confused to that saying by asking "who is this reffering to?" Let's stop ourselves & reflect of what this really means. This part of the first verse I've mentioned is talking about how Judith is being praised through her character for her wisdom, courage, faith, & virtue. She didn't became known for her beauty or status, rather she was highly respected from others from the right people through how she presented herself by using her strength to protect and help others. We don't see this a lot in this world anymore where the women who created an impact get's praised for what they done compared to those who are being famous of their outward apperances. It's somehow rare to see that in today''s age even through I definetly do know that it does happen. I feel like this is an issue whenever it comes to people being famous in my personal opinion. We focus more on the person and admired them based on their aesthetics or their beauty and make them have all attention online and not for what they are as a person through their own character. people are going to argue on me through this standpoint saying that I'm being judegmental, however there is more to that based on what I stated earlier through the last paragraphs. If you are listening and reached this far from this blog, you would already know and understand what I truly mean from the beginning. I feel the secular world we are in don't respect or honor the woman who create the impact because of how they only focus on temporary desires. It can also too how many people do not care if they make the different which to I find it very sad (´･๏ฝช･｀) this is where again there is a restored vision through bibical femninity, which I do need all of you guys to carefully pay attention & listen. How this can come back through Judith is that she is a perfect example of how a woman's greatness can be reflected back through her courage, faith, wisdom, and moral strength. This is where some people might not get the message yet, and I am going to explain it right now. When I said Judith was highly respected for her character, she didn't seek attention just like people are doing in today's age, rather she acts with integrity & speaks the truth wisely. When we as Christian women see it through the lenses of bibical femninity, we began to see that the restored vision of this of true honor coming from virtue, and not just someone elses image. The other part of the verse where it has a passage "You are the great pride of Isreal" has something already similiar to what I mentioned earlier. I am going to gently explain what this verse means through both contrasts of the real world & bibical femninity, however I feel I really do not need to talk about it once again since it's going to sound already what I mentioned earlier through the other scriptures. So I'm going to leave it to you guys to reflect on the rest of the verse of Judith 15:9 since I know most of you guys are smart people to figure out the rest on your own (˶◜แต◝˶)
Judith 15:10 has a passage saying "You have done all this with your own hand" where it emphasizes how Judith took action courageously instead of her remaining passive. Many people would get this, however some people will be like "well what does it mean by Judith doing this?" This one I believe is pretty straightforward to understand, but I'm willing to go over through it if you guys wish me to (˶แต แต แต˶) ‹๐น Sometimes I feel when it comes to modern culture in this world is that it always presents the reactions that are the "two extremes." Many may be wondering what that is, which is what I am getting into right now. The first type of extreme is culture would portray a hyper-agressive 'strength,' which basically means that a woman is portrayed as being harsh or defensive/prideful & would poke arguments with others and not create a state of peace. One thing too is that she would believe femninity must be act in a way where it's 'hard' by mocking it's softness & gentleness that comes from it. Does this sounds what bibical femninity reflects on? Absolutely not, nuh uh ๐↔️ some of you guys may or may not be aware of this, but this is what is commonly portrayed a lot through black culture where a black woman is showcase being aggresive & unkind to other people around her, and sadly this isn't any different when it comes to reality TV & music videos for example. The reason I said this gently as a black woman myself is that I feel personally the media always portray women in the community in that manner which gives us a bad light & a negative reputation where people sterotype us with misconceptions. It also makes things completely unfair for other black women too despite how we are not a monolith at all & we are all made unique by God's own image & through different personailities, talents, aspirations & different souls. I would say it does make everything very unfair for us which makes other people generalizing all black women like we are all behave in a certain way even til' this day when really this isn't the case at all & it's 100% false (ใฃ- ‸ – ฯ) I can say this too as someone who is introverted who is dark-skinned woman who is very soft-spoken, meek, & very gentle towards others + me being neurodivergent, and even someone who likes niche stuff & small simple things & being in calm environments where it's not overstimulating, and also how I do not watch movies or TV shows since most of the stuff on there are what God condemns through csripture and Church teachings (& despite how I hated rap and hip-hop music (๊ฆ¬_¬). Sadly, society doesn't showcase a lot of black women who are like this sadly when there are several of them who showcase femninity traits (。・ฮต・。) I'm sure there might be someone or several other black women as readers who may be thinking the same things which is why I through of reflecting on since it does showcase an example of hyper-aggressiveness. I don't know, but I just simply am getting sick & tired of how people from different cultures & races always have to objectified & sexulize black women, when really we are not objects & are made in the same dignity of God.. it just angers and saddens me how this issue isn't being spoken about, but when it is, the noise goes crickets & the silence gets louder, or just people try to gaslight & manipulate us or shift the blame that it's our fault & we ask for it, when really that is false cuz not every black women is sexually active in a way where half of the women choose to present themselves vulgarly... - ‸ - there are several- heck! tons of black women who are completely the opposite like this & truly do care about their femninity & their modesty, and it's frustrating how society ignores that part & focus on the negative & damaging sterotypes which are misconceptions. sigh.. I just find it tiring, even as someone who is a black woman who is soft-spoken & is introverted + neurodivergent (ใฃ- ‸ - ฯ) Speaking of which- there was a video I did stumble across on which does talk about this somehow in a deeper level, which you guys are more than welcome to watch. It has nothing to do about what I am talking about, but it does somehow connects the dots of hyper-aggressiveness, which you guys would figure out if you watch the video. Worse case I feel it isn't cool at all is that a lot people in the black community are nomralzing & desensitizing it as if it's a good thing & it brings in 'empowerment,' when really this may lead to unfair stereotyping from outsiders & we may be presenting ourselves in a way that doesn’t reflect our full dignity เซฎ₍⇀‸↼‶₎แ I figured what I said may upset other people because of how blunt & straightforward I said it, but sadly this is the truth I feel a lot of there from the community are blinded to realizing that isn't isn't good and this isn't benefiting anyone at all. And I didn't brought this up to shame others or judge them even through it may come across that to some people, rather this is a straight connection to how it is from the real world which a lot of people are either scared or do not want to admit. The second form of extreme which the world always portrays is passive femninity, which simply means that a woman is portrayed of not self-avocating for herself or protecting others by showing she is closed off or withdrawn through fear of being hurt or harmed. This one is extremely harmful & sadly there are many girls like myself who are like this up til' this day. I included myself through this is ebcause ever since during my younger years, I constantly been severely bullied throughout the whole school year of grade 5 of elementary school after I moved schools from my other one. during that time, I was too scared to speak up for myself from people excluded me or pushed me away from them or whatsoever which did resulted to be being withdrawn and closed-off to the point where I began to build up my resentment towards people & my social anxiety as well. This was the time too where I was miserable & have a really diffuclt time maintaining my emotions. The teacher at the time didn't properly help me and got annoyed or ignore moe whenever I have emotional outbursts or when people are being mean to me. Worse part is that during this time the teacher was rude to me sometimes & blame all of her class problems on me as a scapegoat & her personal punching bag saying it's all my fault doing xyz. It does have a lot of damage to me as a child even up to now which is why it's very hard for me to get over what happened to me from the past. Thankfully, I'm glad I returned back to Christ's arms & surrender & forgave the people who've hurted me despite how it was a extremely hard thing to do. It did continued on for the bit in grade 6 once after I've moved to a different school until it stopped where I was closed-off & socially anxious the next 2 years later before I graduated elementary to go to highschool. I still was like this at my first years of highschool until I surround myself with the right people & allow myself & the Holy Spririt for me to recover slowly & trsansform me ◡ I don't know, but for me I can see myself connection throughout my younger years of my life through the sense of 'passive femninity." How there is a restored vision through bibical femninity based on this verse is that it can showcase a bibical woman felecting on both forms of bibical femninity. What does that mean? Easy, it can simply show that a woman can be gentle & brave, but also she can show that she can be humble & courageous & strong altogether. This is how Judith protrays herself when she represents bibical femninity. She blanaced both in a way where it shows courage, wisdom, faith, & showing action being guided by virtue. As Christian women, instead of us leaning towards one kind of femninity over another, we should be livivng through Judoith's example by living through bibical femninity through a balanced way. I feel personally even for secular people who aren't even Christian should do this as well, but regardless I should definelty tell this to myself too since this does apply to me in so many ways in my life ˚ส♡ษ˚
Okie folks, let's move on to the next scripture which is another Sirach verse which is Sirach 3:17-18. What this verse gently emphasizes on is that a femninime woman can be beautiful, talented, or sucessful while still remaining kind, grounded, and emotionally mature. This does carries a similiar message of what I've stated earlier through the last paragraph & the other ones pinpointing to different scriptures, but I am happy to go over it again through m ore detail with both contrasts of the modern world & bibical femninity •แด• You see in the modern culture, I feel personally the society we live in (the world by the way) heavily promotes pride & attention-seeking behaviour from others in the most unhealthiest ways. How this can be see is that some of you guys as readers may had observed people constantly self-promoting themselves & feeling they have the need to appear supeiror than anyone else in the room. This is one thing of me since I don't like to put myself in the spot because I don't want other people to feel bad feeling jealous or feeling their a certain way for not winning an accomplishment they don't have by me showing it to everyone. Some people don't find an issue of this which is fine, but to me I personally don't like doing that because not only because I don't care for accolades & accomplishments, but it's because I want to practice humility in my own character which Christ tells all of us to do as Christians universally. This is where the passage from Sirach 3:17 comes in where it says "My child, perform your tasks with humility." Sounds familiar? Yeah, because we often see this online on the internet too where a lot of people practice this kind of prideful behaviour, with or without them realizing it. It's harder for us to sometimes notice this because of how I feel we don't think of it too personally and are blinded of thinking this is normal when really it's not. Thing is really as Christian women we are made as God's daughters to call out sin in a truthful yet in a loving & gentle manner, even especially when it comes to someone acting prideful. It's interesting too how I figured out today that in some cultures, someone showing signs on humility would be a sign that they are weak to other people. I don't know, this is commonly seen in the Western world, even shockingly in East Asia in particular and other parts of the world. You can list the countries on top of your head who has this kind of mindset, because I know 100% you guys are smart people & you can are knowledgeable to connect the dots. I'm not here to say this to put anyone in a bad light, rather I'm building a slow connection of how the secular world does operate throuhg this context of this verse. It's even way sadder to think that a lot of people in this society believe that people would think they are weak if they act humble and not gloat or act boastful like the others are doing. Before someone is here to tell me this, I am not here to say you cannot share your achieve ments, when when it gets to an issue where you are acting arrogant or emotionally hardened, this is the issue where you are in a state of sin when you start to have a mindset you are above than anyone else in the room & God altogether. Be careful, cuz this is the same sin that God kicked Satan out for in heaven when he was the top angel, which is why he is named the 'fallen angel.' Do not believe this is an aesthetically pleasing name as a lot of people in the internet makes it seem to be, rather this is a real thing which the Bible & the Church stated it did happened & it does back up why Satan & his demons are attacking many of us as Christian woman which is why we are in a real spritiual warfare. When I mean the warfare is real, it is actually real. This is why we are in a state we are in right now where we are living in a broken & shattered world where the enemy is using his multiple attacks on things that are happening on us as human beings, such as war, corruption, crime, division, & you can name lots of more on top of the list. If you do not understand what I am talking about or if it's your first time hearing all about this, I highly reccomend you my dear reader to start reading the chapters from the Bible Iasiah 14:-12-15 & Ezekiel 28: 12-19. A way better verse on the topic of spritual warfare everyone should be reading is Ephesians 6:10-12, that one I feel it strongly deserves a read & everyone should pray & study upon of the Word of God cuz this is an important verses that we should all be taking a look at แ( ' ⩊ '๐ฆน)แ We are on the topic of femninity still, so I'm not going to discuss about that but rather leave it to you guys to study & learn about on your own. Anywho on the lighter note- how this has a retored vision of bibical femninity is the fact how it shows that a bibical femninime womans values humilty in her character by shiwcasing her emotional maturity, quiet confindence, & yes of course, gentleness. Now again, as we are surrounded with those who seek superficial validation & attention from others both in real life & online, bibical femninity does reveals something reall deeper of how we should respond as Christian women. When we are in situations like this (which I know half of us may have.) what Christ called all of us to do is to showcase our humility which shows quiet strength, not weakness based on what the world is saying. Doing this can also reflect on your maturity when you showcase yourself being gentle instead of being boastful or prideful. Moving on to the next passage where it says "The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself." I'm going to say this again, so listen & take it in carefully. "The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself." Do you why this was written inside Sirach 3:18? No? Well let's talk & reflect on it then, cuz this is going to be very interesting one to look at ⋅แด⋅ Now first, let's take a look together of how this connects to the real world of femninism and modern beliefs. The reason of this context of this saying is to put it simply just means that the more influence, beauty, or talent or success the person has, the more it's best that shey should remain humble. Starting off from the secular world, we see the most famous rich people being happy of the postion they are at by working themselves top to reach that goal/ Nothing wrong with it which is a good thing, but when it becomes bad and sinful is where sucess & popularity results into arrogance * superiority complexes. Understand too that this saying does warns us as Christians about vainity, pride, and once again, superiority. You guys would soon learn why this does not go well with bibical femninity. I know what I am going to say about this might upset or dissapoint some readers, but you have have a famous celeberity or influencer or whatever be popular online & also be attractive & sucessful, but also look down at others and treat them poorly through pride and arrogance. This does have some connection from what I've mentioned earlier from 1 Samuel 16:7, so you guys should already be familiar of how this goes. Many of us including me don't see this at all when it comes to someone who is sucessful. We always pay attention to the on the surface-level, but not who they are deeper through their own character. I don't want to act here as if I'm Ms. Goodie-two-Shoes, I do the same thing as well. So yes, I'm guilty of this too, ww. Anyways so yeah, I think it has been this way somewhere in the 20th century where famous people are soley availabile on TV networks, but now in the age of social media, I think it made things worse in a way where it sweep things underneath the rug where it wants us as the viewers to focus only on the apperance of the person and the surface-level stuff or in worse cases- showing the sucessful person treating others poorly and inhumane. This is what goes aganist Christianity, and this isn't what Christ called all of us to do as His believers. A quick glance of how it does reflect on bibical femninity is how it showcases a woman being famous and well-known, BUT she showcases femninime and Christian virtues such as grace, humility, & kindness. How this can be shown simply is how she trats others around her fairly while remaning emotionally grounded & apprachable. Trust me, there are many wonderful women whooo are well-known who are like this, and I personally think we should all be giving more credit to these women and making them well-known. It's very sad to see how social media & society as a whole make the wrong people famous with not-so-good intentions, but when we follow what this scripture says where we as Christian women have dignity and humility coexist together, this is where maturity & self-control/temperance comes in seamlessly with inner strength and wisdom ูฉ(^แ^ )ู ´
jackpot!~ I found another verse already similiar to 1 Samuel 16:7 ๐คฉ๐ฅณ it does have some connections through the other scriptures as well, which is why I am uplifted to discuss and reflect about this one. Micah 6:7-8 have it's context simply giving us a reminder that God cares more about our character & our inner intentions rather than our apperances or materialistic things we have in our lives. I can go through it more in depth, except this time I'll go breifly by first starting with Micah 6:7. This passage here asks a rhetorical question that is reffering to all of us: "Will the Lord will be pleased with throusand of rams?" The awnser will be no, because why? He only cares and examines the human heart & intentions based on how we live as His believers & how we treat others around us. I don't know, but I heard somewhere online (I can't remember, haha!) that there are people who are too consumed where they focus too much through religious performance out of fear and perfectionism. Good thing I'm not one of those people cuz I know God doesn't expect us to be perfect which is why we always fall short as His believers (。・ฯ・。) I not too sure of this one which is why I'm carefully am pointing this out, however this is something which really did stood out to me when I was reflecting through this scripture out of thought. It's very sad to see how people have the mindset where they think that God would hate them if they make a mistake, when really that isn't true at all and He does think of them the complete opposite. I don't know if this does have a connection to femninity of some sort, but it is important that I throught of pointing this out since this verse is a gentle reminder that God isn't asking for our performance or perfection like the Pharisees for example, but rather he is asking for His love for Him & our sincere & genuine faith ♡ Some of you guys may still be confused of how the real world sees this, which I am getting into right now (´･แด･ ` ) This may ring a bell to most of you guys, but the worldy mindset through what this verse is talking about, so I won't talk too much about this one, ww. Rememeber what I said previously- no, matter of fact, many times where I stated that the world focuses on people through apperances and aesthetics? I didn't bring up that example of a woman posting affrimations and scripture all over her social media and a woman making sourdough or being crunchy & wearing floral prarie & cotton and linen dresses for no reason, this does have a connection to what I am going to say and I want everyone to be aware of this. I do however fallen in both categories of me being both devotional & (semi) crunchy with me love to wear dresses during spring and summer (rarely in autumn and winter since where I live is cold during those seasons (*´∇｀*) however neither of these things describe what femninity truly means and what it is. You can have someone be leaning to either of these things or both, but still gossip and cause slander to others by treating the poorly alongwith seeking external validation and attention. Yup, I know, shocking right? Some people still aren't convinced but unfortunately, outward femninity and image alone doesn't complete the true meaning of true femninity. People would argue on me on this one, but I've already explained it earlier why it is the case from 1 Samuel 16:7. If you still do not understand or are disappointed or upset of this, don't bring your anger onto me, pray & seek awnsers from the Lord & ask someone from the church like a learder so they can help you guide you from a spsirtual way. I'm just a messenger who spended my own time to dedicating this blog of talking about bibical femninity since I've been lead to talk about it from the Lord while I'm still learning about it myself, so don't come to me since I may not know everything, wwwww ┐(´～｀ห)┌ how this can be seen by it being reflected back to bibical femninity is that how it soley focues on a woman showcasing sincerity, integrity, genuine virtue & faith, and more importantly in this case, inward transformation. Keep that in your back of your head cuz this would soon click in your minds in your moment. See,, you can have a femninime woman dressing beautifully & modesty, but she can also showcase her own kindness, remanining humble, and more importantly, helping others and treating them kindly and gently. This is something a lot of us as Christian women should be doing, which we shouldn't wait for a perfect moment, we should be doing it right now. This has always been a thing that God called every woman as His daughters to do. When we start cultivating these traits, this is where our own inner character shows and truly deepens and matters to God since He is the one who can examine our intentions and our own hearts instead of human beings where we only see things outwardly and linear without seeing the full picture of the person's character ˚ส♡ษ˚
We have one more passage which it's important to be touching upon! So don't go thinking this is over yet, hahahaha!~ This is the very last one passage of this Micah verse which is two simple words which are "Love mercy." What this means simply for someone who may not understand or be aware of this is a easy understanding that when it comes to mercy, it means we should express our kindness, forgiveness (keep that in your back of your mind please!,) patienece, & compassion towards other people. We see in modern culture (even til' this day as we observed) how we see people actively getting publicly riduclued & harassed online because of how there is a thing called cancel culture where it encourages people to publicly shame others and humiliate them whenever they did something wrong which had sparked them controversy to the outsiders in public through social media. I think many of us who are reading this may familiar with this, so I don't have to explain in through any more detail. When it comes to those stuff, it always end up leading to a common result, which is that many people to not forgive the person who they are upset with which results to them chasing them off from the internet or some severe cases, people doxxing them or hunting down their information. This kind of practice isn't good of any way shape or form because this isn't how we should represent Christ and this entirely goes aganist our Christain values & what Christ calls us to do as our fellow daughters. This can happen to anyone online and no to famlous people we know alone, and as Christian women, we should respond in a way which goes completely aganist what the world is practicing. How this does reflect back to bibical femninity by having a restored vision of that a bibical femninime woman would show mercy on the person who they hurt her by showing her forgiveness, compassion, emotional softness, & grace. This is what Chirst did as well when people were harming Him before he was crucified. Same thing goes for all the saints, they did exactly the same thing of what Christ has done. What we should be doing as Christian women is instead of us going online and doing harsh callouts and berating the person online, what we should all be doing is to share our love through our own kindness and pace by showing our forgiveness to the people who had hurted us, even if we do not know them personally. This message goes for everyone who is reading this, even if you are not a Christian at all. We as Christian women, we are all called to be peacemakers, and when we create hostility in an environment where we are shaming others, this is where we are creating instability which I've spoken about before & we are not making an example of Christ Himself to other unbelievers. When a bibical femninime woman gently corrects someone for their mistake or what they did wrong than to just humiliate & embarass them online through the public to see, this truly reflects on how she is through her maturity-leve emtionally & overall her mercy that she've just showed to that person ♥︎
Galatians 3:27-28 is a generalized verse to the Christian faith, however I did included this one since it somewhat does have a connection to bibical femninity altogether of us being Christ's daughthers ♥︎ starting off from Galatians 3:27, Saint Paul is stating here when he wrote a letter to Galatia to other people there that when someone becomes a Christian, their identidy should come first by them beloning to Christ instead of the world. This is commonly seen when we have baby Christians and reverts entering into the faith, ww. The beginning isn't the easiest, but this the simple meaning to understand what this means through part of the passage; "For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ" It's so interesting how we are in this world where we are constabtly being told the same messages such as.. You are only valuable if you are attractive," "You only matter if you are popular on social media," or another one that's super common that a lot of us had heard of.. "Your worth depends on your status, followers, or sucess." When we think of these ssame common sayings inside our minds, this all have a number of things ehich goes back to; social media attention, trends, aestehtics, popularity, & of course, validation. Many of you guys may be like "yes we get it now," but as I keep on talking about it more, there are a couple of main important things I would like for every girl & woman around the world to keep noted in their minds. I'll continue to talk about it because I want the best for every women and girl to understand that your worth & character should not be valued through superficial and temporary sastification & desires through attention & validation. Here is another thing I would like everyone to understand, so I need you guys to listen and take it in carefully. When we build our own identidy through aesthetics & social media engagement, this is where negativity can build up to the point we feel empty and insecure. This is also unhealthy as well because it builds up unhealthy puressure to please and to impress others. Remember wwhen I've mentioned earlier about hearing stories of people sharing their testimonies where they feel mental exhaustion & burnout for pleasing others online and chasing trends? This used to be me too minus the fact I wasn't present on social media, & I always experiences feelings of insecurity & peer puressure alongside me self-loathing on myself . It is very deep and extreme feelings for me to has as a child yes, but this is what I had experienced when I was around with the wrong crowd of people who did not understand or care about me or my well-being and did so much harm to be to puressure me to do things I am not comfortable with. I feel personally this is a silent issue I would say to the modern world where we overlook a lot as human beings is that we focus too much on outward femninity, even when it comes to Christian content creators or whoever. I know what I am saying is going to upset or anger people once again as a reminder, but I am going to say this again gently for people to be mindful of. You can have someone who have or present a certain kind of branding (Christian or not,) and still treat others poorly and mock others by acting prideful or superiror and gossiping about them. This is the thing for us as Christians to be aware off to what Saint Paul is talking about here. It can also reflect on how we as Christians should reflect Christ soley inwardly through the persons behaviour and their own character. Now this is where bibical femninity has it's restore vision. I'm not here to say you cannot enjoy any fun and whismical activities and hobbies like I do as for example, but when we see this through a different pespective, this is where we learn it's true meaning. Now listen and read this carefully to take all this information in. You can have a Christian woman with virtue enjoy beauty & fashion alongwith dressing feminenely, but she does not make her whole identidy on trends and beauty with popularity online and in real life. The very important part to keep in the back of your mind is that she doesn't based her whole identidy through the male gaze, which if we want to accept or not, some women on the internet and in the real world make their whole identidy out of, and I think many of you guys can fill in the blanks since I'm assuming 100% that we are all adults. Why is this a case you guys may ask? It's very simple. When she makes her whole identidy on Christ alone and has the Holy Spirit within her through her conscience, she knows that she isn't not here or she doesn't care to seek approval from others only, but also she knows she's not of this world and is set apart from it. Ok sure, perhaps you can say she is counter-cultural because she does have hobbies & activities she partake in of this world, but the question is we shall all be asking ourselves is that "does she make her whole identidy on those things or trends she follows or see what her peers are doing or only on Jesus alone?" When you sit and evaluate this question as Christians, this is where you can get your awnser through the Holy Spirit. This is also a good question to ask and reflect on yourselves too, which is what I do highly reccommend ◕ ◡ ◕ I supposed this have a common effect for reverts & new believers of the Christian lifestyle & the faith too if we think of it this way perhaps ๐ค๐ญ this isn't saying that you should give up on the things you like, no!- but rather we need to be very mindful of not making an identidy out of them and reminding ourselves of who we are which is us being daughthers of the King. If you want to believe this or not, I used to make myself as an identidy of not really a maaterial object or trends online, but rather through the movies and the TV shows I've watched. I always had an unhealthy obsession & out myselff through my identidy through that thing. Keep in mind I was watching these things unsupervised & I was very secretive & very young in my pre-teen years before I reconnected back to Christ a couple of years later before I've outgrown and was convicted to stop watching those kinds movies and TV shows I've used to binged on. Another thing to keep in mind too from the past is that I was a huge otaku where I binge watch all these things everyday and being hyperfixated on it in a unhealthy way. In case if some of you guys are wondering- I used to watch anime and horror movies a lot before I stopped watching it completely afterwards once I decided to take my faith more seriously & how a lot of the things on there are demonic and are not from God by showcasing a lot of violence, magic spells, & sexual perversion. This can apply the same way for all movies and TV shows which explains why I choose to voluntarily stay away from them based on now the stuff now shown on there goes aganist my personal convictions now that I am a believer of Christ .⋆♱ When I slowly began to outgrew from watching these things, I now began to realized that it was God who wanted me to guard my eyes for me to not watch any of these things based on how it would damage me spiritually & emotionally. There was a video I remember from someone who mentioned that as Christians we shouldn't be watching certain things, whicb I do strongly reccomend everyone to go and watch °ฯ° I didn't think of it too much and put my identidy on it too much when I was a child, but now as I gotten older and reflect back through it, I began to realized many of the stuff aren't good & I finally learned as Christ's daughther now that I have the Holy Spirit in me & soley have my identidy on Him alone ♥︎ I hear many people from the past where they make their own identidy on a certain thing and not the Almighty alone, which id what result into idoltary and this is what I've been doing a lot during my younger years of my life. I don't know- but I throught of reflecting and adding my testimony on this part of this verse since I decided to talking through this, wwww (≧▽≦) the whole point over here as a conclusion of what I am talking about here is that femninity is seen as a expression through her character & her behaviour, not her whole worth which is the restored vsision of bibical femninity. The shortest way to understand this through the first part of this scripture is that a bibical femninime woman would have her worth based through Christ and only Chirst alone by putting Him first, not through any artificial sastifiaction of this world. When she does this, this where she learns not to seek approval from others by developing less of an obsession of people-pleasing or validation, and more of silent & grounded confindence, peace, & emotional maturity & stability ♥︎ Anywho, another point I do want to point out based through the restored vision of bibical femninity is that this verse have it mainly focusing on inward virtue, sincerity, emotional maturity, & more importantly- Christ. Like. Behaviour. What does this mean? Again this is easy. How a bibical femninime Christian woman woman reflect to this restored vision is that she she avoids herself being arrogant by showing humility by showcasing her patienece for others while speaking gently to them. Another thing that she does is that she does these things actively, even when no one is watching her besides God alone. You see my fellow readers, whenever someone does the right thing or showcases femninity which is God's natural gift He has given every women and girl in this planet Earth, it always has to be broadcast on the internet in a way where it get performative & vainglory. A lot of us sadly do not want to be told this is the case, but sadly, that is how it is when the secular world beings in confusion of this meaning of what femninity is, which is why I created this whole blog from the first place. Now listen up here! How this can reflect to bibical femninity in a breif way to explain it is that the woman's bibical femninity she does showcases through her own character does reflect through her inner transformation, not through her own outward care. I personally believe it is time for us to see this more than the materialistic & vainglory side of femninity of what the internet & social media alongwith trends always like to showcase. One major thing of this that everyone needs to understand about this is that for the restored and bibical femninity vision of what this part of this verse likes to emphasize on is that femninity doesn't truly show by it's apperance or image, but rather it's what it truly shows by outward character rooted from a woman's inward virtue & overall her Christ-like behaviour. And that is something I want every woman and girl all across the world to truly understand, even Christian wiomen as well who are especially are navigating through femninity just like me ♥︎
The other part of the passage which is from Galatians 3:28 mentions the following; There is neither Jew nor Greek, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Most of us will know again that this is generalized meaning to the whole Christian faith and lifestyle, but this is already quite similiar to what I've already did touched upon through the last paragraphs of it's precious scriptures. ou guys would soon later see a connection of what I really mean by this & how there is a very huge constrast to the both real secular world & bibical femninity. The meaning of the first half of the passage is simple to understand. What it is talking about here is that it's emphasizing on how every Christian around the world are all equal and have the same value before God, this includes us as women as well. It doesn't erase the idea of someone being spiritually "better" by having a different ethnicity or race, social status or background, or even nationality than you, rather it makes someone still being spritually valueable in the eyes of the Almighty God we serve. How does the secular world sees this you may ask? The contrast of how the real world we are in sees this is that society is no stranger to creating division of groups of people for as long as human history had existsed. As we are all aware from now, society has created division though others through race, ethnicity, status, wealth, types of social groups, disabilities, & yes of course.. popularity which is the main factor in this modern world we are living in today. As I think about this right now, this is what causes people to develop a unconcious bias & hatred againist one another which can explain all of the corruption & the war that is happening in this world we are living in right now. This does definetly have an effect on us as women based on all of the things I've had listed up earlier. I dunno, I guess I can say reflecting through this that this does have an impact on us as women and girls as a whole because of how we shame other women that are different from us every single day. It's sad & not good because this is something we've all had done once in our lives, even for some of us this is something we've been doing more otfen than we think. I always look down at other women whenever they are different than me by practicing their cultural norms I do disagree with that don't align with mine or how they carry themselves through how they talk or how they dress. Because I came from Western African culture, hygiene & self-image carries a big role through the whole woman's identidy. There are other things through African culture that are highly respected & valued on a woman through her child & adulthood, but I think these two are the ones I think it's best for me to have is primary focus on. Whenever there is a girl or a woman who doesn't properly take care of herself very well, we often judge her by saying she is dirty & lazy & all sorts of mean & horrific things about her. Beleive me, they do the same thing in Africa too, not only in other countries alone. I'm pretty much sure this is pretty much similiar to other cultures all across the globe too, so please gently tell me in the comment section underneath my blog down below ₍แข. ̫.แข₎ We often judge women from different Africian cultures and countries or from different continents all the time who aren't like us or don't do the same thing as us, and I find it very sad & uncool because we as women, we should be celebrating our differences even if we do not understand or agree with them entirely. Mostly a lot of this all come from the elders & my own mother & aunties in my family, which does explain why I have an internalized mindset of having a bias towards other women who are way different than me. Don't get me wrong, I do love all of these women who are in my life, but when we reflect on this as Christian women, this doesn't make it cool at all because this is how it creates division & hatred towards one another, which isn't something Christ called all of us to do in any way, shape, or form (´-ฮต-｀) Whenever we want to accept the reality or not, this is what we've all had done as women once or even more in our lives where we as women or girls had judged another women or girl. This may rub people the wrong direction by taking offense out of this, which is why I would like for you to sit a here longer and take it in carefully. This isn't me calling out or shaming anyone here, rather this is me calling out a universial issue which we've been all been blindly been doing & for us to all solve the issue through the lenses of bibical femninity & through the Christian-perspective of thinking through what this verse is emphasizing. Before I go on and resume with this conversation, I would like to say that there is more I would like to add through this paragraph. All this time of me talking about topics such as pride, surface-level judgement, & lots of other words & topics I've tocuhed on, you guys would soon finished reading this blog & begin to relfect & paint the whole picture of that I am talking about & slowly understand why this blog is written with a sense of purpose & uplifting others through tough love ๊จ︎๊จ︎ Now back to the discussion- I now want to hear some of my fellow Gen-Z readers to awnser this question (*´∇｀)ใ when we always hear the term "girl's girl," why is it when someone calls themselves that, they quickly judge another woman when she is complerely different from her? I've never picked up to used this term since I never really follow with trends no more nor I picked up using too much slang whenever I'm speaking to others, however I figured this may be a hard question to awnser since I'm challenging you guys to reflect now, but if some of you guys do have the awnser to this through your perspective, please tell me kindly under the comment section down below please! ˙˚เฌo(∗ ❛ั แต ❛ั )เฉญ່˙I figured you guys may had already seen the video on my previous paragraph on Instagram, however I will be here to briefly talked about. Ok, remember what I stated earlier about how we as women we all have subconcious biases we don't even think of at all for most of the time? When some women online & in the real world describes themselves a "girl's girl," are they really acting in a way they truly are? (.-.) Because there are some women who say they are, but they don't act in a way they are for loodown and judging other women whenever they see a woman online or in real life for not being aesthetic or trendy or popular on social media, excluding girls who struggle with their social skills by being socially awkward or being naturally introverted (me for example! ^^), or being judge and ostrazised for dressing differentlly or having fashion preferences alongwith practicing their traditional culture or lifestyle differently than theirs, and the list can go on. I've been actively mocked during my younger years mainly based of my apperance, my neurodivergence/autism (mostly that is the main reason why I became a target,) my introversion, & for my interests and hobbies during my younger years since I wasn't hooked on social media trends during when I was in grade school compared to the other girls who were in the same age as me. It was so crazy looking back where social media got super big, but at the same time it was good that I was care-free as a child and allow myself to enjoy what I have instead of feeling puressured of growing up too fast ๐ฅน It did a lot of harm to me and damaged my self-esteem as a child which is where all of the social & verbal bullying and abuse came in throughout my childhood which I mentioned earlier throughout my blog (╥_╥) it is very sad & I do feel sorrow for other women and girls who are going or gone through the same thing as I did, which is why I pray through the intercession with Our Lady that you find healing & forgiveness to the people who inflicted harm towards you ♡♡♡ This is something I had to do which was a extremly difficukt fir me to do as I was carrying all of this pain for many years fo my life internally. Sometimes we need to be very mindful that this judgement that you and I my dear reader make towwards someone unconciously or not can inflict harm towards someone permnamentaly where we create invisiable wounds where it damages them spiritually. A lot of the times we aren't aware we are doing this whenevr we are judging something of how they are as a human being which can crush their own dignity that God has given to them, especially if it's direct or indirect to another woman. This is soemthing as Christian women we should be very aware about, and this is a reminder for me as well since I subconciously do these things to others too where I said things direct or indirectly towards them too which does result me practing a thing that is sinful. Unfortunately whenever we want to believe or accept this or not, these things or comments we make often appear by making side comments, gossip/slander, subtle exclusion, superirority, passive aggresiveness, and something which is more common in this day of age which is online mockery. I intentionally mentioned this cuz not only because how this term is popular, but it really forces us to reflect on if we are good representatives of this term we are using that has been circulating for a while or not. And as Christian women, I strongly believe we should be re-evaluating on ourselves & our own hearts when we think of what this has been stated from earlier. Please listen up carefully of how there is a restored vsision & a connection to this scripture & how bibical femninity shows this through a Christian perspective ♰♡ oh and yes!, I would love to hear your throughts and testimonies down below about this case from this paragraph or wherever topic of this blog, just as long it is reasonable & respectul on the topic of femninity (˶◕‿◕˶✿) we are going to jump back to the focus of how it connects to femninity, so allow me to continue talking about that ๐ anyways, how this scripture based on the letter to Saint Paul reminds us gently as women of God is that human value isn't based through worldly categories of the social hierachy or by ranking of some sort. Human history has been doing this for a while of who is the superiror and who isn't, and it's no different it still has an effect on today's world as well. However though bibical femninity, it's time this must come to an end and we should be making an impact & setting an exmaple to every woman and girl of this world of what this verse explains about. Listen carefully cuz this can benefit for your own good for you and everyone else spsirtually. What this main core of this verse mainly talks about are the traits such as compassion, humility, emotional maturity, love, kindness towards others, & yes- sincerity. Bibical femni nity reflects on something even more deeper which the Holy Spirit can see Himself & not us as human beings; he's sees every woman in this world equally valued into one. Why is this the case? The reason why I am telling you guys this gently is because of how a girl or a woman who is shy, socially awkward, introverted/extroverted, religious, wealthy/poor, abled-bodied/disablied, trendy, feminine/tomboyish, or even a a girl from another culture or country all still carry the same dignity and value before God. Yes!- we are all fearfully & wonderfully made by God who blessed us with different personailties, have our own facial structure, height, & body weight & size, talents, & dreams & aspiurations for our futures, but does it mean we don't carry the same value by one being the better & more valuable than the other? No, not in the eyes of the Lord especially. This is a gentle reminder for us as Christians to keep noted when we see another human beings right up front of our own faces, he or she still carried the equal dignity and value that God had given to us freely as our precious daughthers. There is more to this which is why I am here to gently explain this even more. How a bibical Chrustian femninime woman would relfect & examine herself through this is the fact how instead of her having hidden jealously or creating cliques by creating superiority & social ostrasization, what she does instead which reflects back to Christ's own character is that she appreciates that every women is different, encourages to uplift other girls & women who are struggling or needed more assistance, avoids surface-level judgement from her own biases, & more importantly which we should all be mindful of.. practcing gentleness & humility on herself & others. See, you can have someone saying "I support all women" or.. "I'm a girl's girl," but can we truly reflect through our discernment if that woman is truly is one through how she behaves & judges other women? This is something you guys need to awnser yourselves because I am not a mind-reader & it's best to have the Holy Spirit to always speak to you through your conscience ๐ As Christian women together, when we team up together all as one by valuaing every single woman by having ewual dignity before God, this is where we truly see womanhood having it's true beauty & purpoise in life which God had blsessed each one of us as females ♡ This is something I feel it's a very impioortant discussion to have in this day of age because people would say that truly care about all women but not act in a way where they see different women in the world as one whole human and one whole soul (・´ะท`・) when we as Christians once again team up together having the belief that we can support & acknowledge every woman's difference of this world this is where we as Christian women alike can achieve all become true girl's girls in a way where we don't say we support all women outwardly, but rather support each one of them by treating them fairly with sincerity, humility, and kindness inwardly as well (ใฅเน•แด•เน)ใฅ♡
Another thing I personally think it is impotant for us to talk about with the same Galatians 3:28 verse over here is the fact how about the passage I've stated earlier: "..male or female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Hmmmmmmmmmm, sounds familiar does it? (｡△｡*) Do you know why exactly why I decided on talking about this once again? No? Well here we are now on this discussion right now with me (˶˃ แต ˂˶) .แ.แ because this is again another very important one I think all of us as women and girls should have once again as a brief & gentle reminder (..◜แด◝..) I know that I mentioned this passage and didn't talk about through the previous one, but here we are doing it anyway ◝(แตแแต)◜This is one of the questions one of my friends online had asked me before which driven me to create this whole blog (✩ ์ แด ์✩) so this paragraph in particular is for my friend who might be reading this & for others readers to read, so please sit and take your time to listen what I have to say for this part (´-ฯ-)` The simple meaning of the context of this verse to understand that it states something for us to know very clealy about both men and women, is that both opposite genders are equal in worth beforw God. It's not talking about biological differences diappear, one gender being better than other, or men and women are identical- no!, but rather what it means is that both men and women as God's own children can grow in holiness together and are loved equally by Him ♡ See.. this would defintly will ruffle some feathers for most people, so let's allow ourselves by starting off the contrast of the secular world but more in a gentle manner regards about femninism. Some of you guys are left confused saying thinking that I sound hyprocritial for supporting femninism from 100+ years ago, which is why I am here to explain my reasoning a bit more in detail instead of leaving you guys hanging there by those words thinking I said them out of for no reason. When we carefully looked through the history back then since the centuries, yes- women had been treated unfairly by having very poor treatment by men, lack of education opportunities, unable to vote & have basic nessesties or legal rights, and are abused or being ignored by being puressured to remain silent from others. This is extremely sad and had strip away the human dignity of these women from the past because of how their own value isn't being respected by how they are being treated as less than from men from the society they're in. No, I am not naive even through I'm sure am young teenage woman and inexperienced of this world, but that doesn't mean I am unable to address the real issues that are happening in this world where the enemy is sending us attacks daily ♡ And keep in mind, this is a universal issue to many countries since beginning as human history has gotten more advanced quite a bit with traditional standards for through gender roles, and unfortunately, there are some countries til' this day around the world where women still are facing these struggles that I had listed by treating the women in their own countries unfairly & in a most unhealthy way ₍^◞ ˕ ◟^₎⟆ I can see why a lot of people would feel uneasy as to why these things happened (which we should all be feeling this way for this!) which is where the early femninist movement came in around the early 1900's where women fought every sweat, tear & blood to gain the right to vote, have better access to high-quality education & jobs, being protected by the law for abuse or mistreatment, and more important outcome to this, having all women being recognized more as full human beings with dignity & intellience, because keep in mind there are some women who are in this movement who are lawyers & politicians of some sort whatsoever. The good outcome of this layer through this explination I clarified is that it shows that not every femninist movement through history has bad intentions. Sure, I can agree and so can you that's the case for the past century, but what about the 21st century we are living in through the progressive movements & the age of social media where people are easily influenced....??? You see..?!, this is where I am challenging you guys to think of this more deeply, even for myself as well. When I mean by the word "challenging," I don't mean it in a way to debate someone verbally & get defensive of my points where there is no sense of peace but it creates a volatile environment, but rather in a througful way to reflect & to think critically, which is something I wanted many of you guys as readers for you & I myself to do (& besides… I dislike arguing with people in general, so I’m more likely to quietly disappear than to watse my time fighting with someone online, hahaha~ ♡) I know some people would disagree or would get upset what would I have to say, but I am going to go on mentioning about it anyway since this blog is designed to blurt out the truth & reality with a flavour of tough love while sounding blunt at the same time ๐ So do not be surprised of what I am going to say is going to surprise to ruffle some feathers to some people, even if it's not targeting anyone & is truthful hehe!~ ๊(≧▽≦) Now anyways!~ going back to the secular world we are in today- how this can go back to the question I've asked rhetorically that I feel personally that modern femninism slowly shifted away from femninity. The reason why I feel this way is because for the older femninism which every women knows about- it's a public movement where it seeks women to have safety, dignity, fairness, & respect. Modern femninism doesn't have any of these things and are slowly are shifting away from these things by having women rejecting men entirely by making them as bad people or villans when they aren't, or seeking competition instead of harmony and peace towards other women. Yes, I understand that for some women they had men in their lives who had harmed them, but that still doesnt excuse us as women to reject all men because God designed the both of us to work and to solve problems together in our lives (:´꒳:)` Even for me as someone who wants to date a wonderful God-fearing boy to marry and spend my rest of my life with, I do need to understand what I am getting myself into for him becoming my partner by submitting myself to him and love for him and working together- which im already am aware that marriage requires lots of hard work for both me and by future hubby despite how I am still young and unmarried & still have more time to go in my life, www... ๐
Good thing the Lord awnsered me by having this video reccomended to me on my feed a while ago from last month & I found a prayer online for an everyday prayer for my desires which the Lord knows about, www. This is something I always do every day for the Lord & for Mama & St. Joseph to handpick my future boy to be my life-long partner for me to grow spriritually with (✿˶•แต•)♡(• แต •˶) Another thing that modern femninism entirely rejects more which a couple of women are observing is that it's somehow rejecting motherhood & homemaking for women who choose that kind of lifestyle for themselves by how other women who are femninist are simply shaming other women for want to build a family & have children of their own. I myself want to become a mother and a homemaker alongwith me wanting to get married in the future because of how these things are my life-long goals to me, but it doesn't seem fair for femninism to treat the women who chose that lifestyle as if their failures, rather we should look at them as if they're strong- and that's what I'm aspired myself to be down the road in my life. Another issue that I feel it's important to reveal in this discussion is that modern femninism which we all know rejects traditional femninity which I have already talked about before & view softness & gentleness as a form of weakness. The same thing can apply to where the movement is promoting hyper-independance to the point where it becomes unhealthy where society pushes women and girls to believe & to see emotional connection to other people in their relationships as if it's not important. Now listen- I'm not here to say this to target or to attack anyone personally or to describe every femninist women as this way, but it's really important to reveal the negative impacts that affect all women based of what comes from it & why modern femninism does not align to the Church teachings and through Scripture of the Christian faith. Now if you like, let us allow eachother gently to put together the contrast between traditional & modern femninity, just so we are all at the same page of understanding so there is 0% confusion at the end of this paragraph •‿• You guys already heard me mentioned earlier that historical femninism from the early 1900's is there to have women have basic respect & dignity, education & job opportunities, protection, & the ability to participate inside society fairly. These desires and rights are resonable & understandable why the movement is there to be taken place because of how in the early 1900's & from beforehand- women were treated unfairly & are not respected by the men in the society and basically all throughout human history, which can explain why misogyny & sexism takes place & is unaddressed. Now when we fast forward to the modern culture we are in now in the early 2000's (early to mid 2020's I mean by the way,) I find it that modern femninism can sometimes imply the mindset to many women and girls of the same message of "To be strong, a woman must reject softness or femninity." I don't know.. but after seeing this kind of mindset being said, I can see how me and other Catholic & other Christian women see the real issues of modern femninism that are hidden and swept underneath the rug & why it is a problem in today's society. When this kind of message is being sent out to the society where women and girls are lost in their lives or don't have Jesus in their lives, this is where the wrong route comes in for them & for every women in the society as a whole. Well what does this mean? Well- similiar to what I said from earlier, but I'm happy to recall it again (´･ฯ･)`When it comes to femninism, what really happens if you have some womenor girls of the world who practice this movement who actively mock gentleness & softness & see motherhood & homekaing as "lesser than or a failure." It's very sad to see why they see this as the case which we all know that the message they are recieveing is what is misguiding them & contradicting the design of how God made us to be. I understand that not every women would be mothers because God has different plans for different women sure- but that doesn't mean we should see motherhood as a form of a burden, even if there is women volantarily chose this lifestyle like me as for example through prayer & discernment (´･๏ฝช･｀) it does leads into one thing to talk about too which is resulting to women acting emotionally hardened- meaning someone who is acting prideful, combative, defensive, or emotionally closed off from others. I feel this one is what saddens me the most mainly because of how there are women who been hurted badly from the people in their lives, even those from their church as for example which resulted to them driving themselves away by mocking vulnerability & pushing others away (รณ﹏รฒ｡) I feel the empathy for these people who are like this despite how I used to be this way during my younger years based on how I had both adults and kids harmed be physically, verbally, & spiritually ฯ
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it can also explain why I was socially anxious & awkward & also hardened emotionally which ids what I am emphasizing over here. I am slowly recovering by taking little baby steps at the time which is why it is important for me to give myself some grace based on the past trauma I had to suffer as a child + someone who is neurodivergent after I decided to choose to return back to Jesus' arms after all the years I had turned my back from Him (๊ แด ๊✿) despite how I still have social anxiety, it is important for me to be gentlier on myself than to overthink myself from the past แต̈ that's why as I am typing this I am praying for those who are emotionally hardenend that hopefully they can recover from their past trauma like I had or have their soul or heart softened from humility ♡ anyway, how this can go back to bibical femninity from it showing off a restored view is it showcases something that is balanced for both historical and modern femninity alike. Now before you guys say something you may perhaps regret saying later, I need for you guys to sit back & relax and listen to what I have to say. The shocking truth of what bibical femninity shows through this is very surprising for you guys and I alike who are together learning about this, and you guys are going to learn about it right now ใพ(｡✪ฯ✪｡)๏ฝผ this scripture of Galatians is not teaching you and I both together that women are inferiror, unintelligent, voiceless, or they should have no respect or dignity- NO! But also at the same time it's not teaching all of us that femninity is bad that softness is weakness and women must imitate harshness to be valuable to others... also that too is also wrong as well! Instead what it showcases are the opposite of what I spoken about millions of times to you all which we all needed a reminder of (✿◠แด◠) what bibical femninity presents the balanced yet restored view of what it truly is in the Christian faith is having dignity, wisdom, gentleness, emotional & spiritual maturity, humility, & courage. What it does also showcase to us as Christian women is that we as women (Christian or not) are all spiritually equal before God and coexisit together equally. How this can be seen simply is that you can have a bibical femninime woman who is compassionate, gentle, modest (by both her behaviour/how she acts & speaks and presentation/how she dresses,) nurturing & emotionally soft, but also she can be wise, intelligent, spiritually & emotionally mature, courageous, respectful, & also be equal in dignity before God. It's so interesting how we have many female Catholic saints who lived and are known for avocating for women rights way before historical and modern femninism takes place ̤̮ St. Catherine of Siena, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Gianna Beretta Molla, St. Joan of Arc, and many other female saints avocating and fought for the protection of women and girls who are vulnerable while still valuing womanhood, virtue, family, faith, and their femninity. I know there are some of the readers here that are non-Catholic Christians & some that aren't even apart of the Christian faith at all, but I find it very important to make a connection of how it connects to what we are discussing about here as me as a Catholic woman (●'◡'●) they didn't fought for dignity to erase femninity or motherhood at all, or to imitate men or to destroy tradition entirely- No!.. That is not what their missions are of this world based through their intentions. And this is me saying this before someone or anyone else tries to mix this up. When you soon learn about their stories (which I'm hoping all of y'all should do!) in your own time since I don't got the time myself to explain it to you guys, what you soon realize about this main & while theme of this blog is that many of these female saints wanted education, respect, safety, justice, & yes more importantly.. spiritual dignity in which the Lord has given to them from the beginning. And keep in mind that these are real women before they've been canonized as saints, so no- do not think it's some fairytale before I hear someone telling me it is ( •̀ - •́ ) This is what me and many of you guys as readers all together do not realize that Christianity has always historically helped peserve the spiritual dignity of women and girls in many ways through another. No, this has nothing to do about misogyny because Christianity never supports misogyny in any way shape or form, but what it needs to be clarified here is that women are capable of holiness & protection & basic respect & dignity, but also how marriage requires mutural responsibility to the woman and the man who are in the married relationship. Yes, I understand that there were a number of flaws throughout history despite how human beings aren't perfect & make mistakes, but when we see it through another picture- these are the same women who helped out through hospitals, orphanages, and many other places that we are still using & that are availabile today ₍แต•แด•แต₎ This is the whole meaning of this other half of this verse Galatians 3:28 is that we as Christian women in this modern world we are in can lead the example of true femninity to this world by being servants of God's kingdom & we need to understand that too that femninity & dignity do not cancel each other out. When we live through this example through the Christian lifestyle & our faith, we start to understand the whole idea that women can embrace both dignity and femninity together seamlessly, which is the whole point & the driven factor of why I created this whole blog to begin with ̑ แด ̑ So the next time you are thinking of this- go back and reflect back to this scripture cuz it goes through the whole meaning of what true femninity is through the Church teaching & through Scripture °❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
awwww!~ Are you now getting bored? ๐ Don't worry- I promise you this will be over soon, however we still have more scriptures to go just before we end. I know I know, this blog is very long & I had you guys sit & have to read through the whole thing, but at least this is helping you to give you knowledge & perhaps some growth spiritually depending on where you are of your journey with Christ Jesus, even through I myself is still learning this too ( ´･ฯ･) + it's a good thing it's not some lecture hall even through it might imply as one so some people- but designed to be a open discussion at the to everyone which is only allowed once your finished reading everything only cuz I want to make sure each one of you read everything carefully & slowly before you had anything to say or ask at the end, www.. ^^; I know a lot of you guys are tempted to skim through or to only read the half, but if you are really interested of exploring through femninity from the bibicial & Christian perspective- you need to read through the whole thing little by little while still evaulating your your own flaws and character + your own understanding of what it is ๐ฅบ So please read through the whole thing and don't go til' we're close to the end (ใฅ｡◕‿‿◕｡)ใฅ Ok? Ok. So please don't go, cuz the next couple ones even this current one would sound very interesting, otherwise you'll be missing the important details of what I have to say of this verse, ww (；´∀｀) now that we had move on, let's now jump into the next scripture which is Psalm 68:5-6. I decided on pushing in one psalm verses into this blog since there wasn't any to reflect on for bibical femninity, so I though why not?? ^^; But there is a reason why I personally included this one in this dioscuss even through it somehow does have a connection to femninity. Wait til' you guys hear about my own testimony since I have that to share based through the reflection of this verse + sharing the whole constrast between the secular world & bibical femninity ( ´ ▽ ` )๏พ we are going to start off talking about Psalm 68:5 since it's the first verse that I've included on there + me sharing a testimony for me to share. OK!- the meaning of what the verses does emphasizses on where the passage says "Father of orphans and protector of widows" can sound a bit offguard & would make zero sense for someone reading this, but it does show a simple meaning behind this. What this means simply is that God deeply cares for people who feel abandoned, lonely, forgotten, or emotionally unsupportive from others from the society. Now you guys may be wondering "well what does this have anything to do with femninity..?" Where this may be going to might sound a bit offguard, but I promise you guys would soon later understand it eventually. I will try to do my best to connect this to bibical femninity even through this verse has zero connection through this topic ˙ ͜ส˙ During time times of 2000+ years ago way back before Jesus was born, the terms "widows" & "orphans" were used to refer to people that were often isolated & ostrasized or they're vulnerable with 0% protection or support for others who've had mistreated or abandoned them. What this can be seen as it is is that it reflects back to God's tenderness towards the people who feel unseen, lonely, and emotionally disconnected from the world they are surrounded by. Be mindful of this too because Christ Himself hung around with those people which are the Gentiles ₍แต•แด•แต₎ This can go and reflect back how there is a worldy issue where many people around the world (even me included) are experiencing loneliness & are carving for some form of genuine & true connection. I don't know, but I find it that in the world of social media especially- it's easier for people to be decieve to think of others they see online, or to have other people think of them as they have a lot of friends or people they hung around with. Again, this is the reason why I stated earlier why social media is not real and it is a highlight reel for what is shown based through parts of a person life. It doesn't replace the reality we are living in, rather what it shows is that it showcases a curated facade or performance of what the person who is posting this want others to see & think of them online & it makes you experience the feelings of jealously, envy, comparision, & unhappiness (which coming to think of it- this is somewhat of a form of vainglory/vainity, which is sinful by the way & came to a realization as I was evaulating on what I've said.) I didn't say this for no reason at all, rather you guys would soon slowly come to a realization why I said this. I know a lot of us who grew up on the digital age (millenials & Gen-Z's- I'm talking to you by the way) may relate & understand this better compared to some other readers who are from the older generations, which is why I decided to add this scripture on there to begin with. Today, many people in this world are surrounded by a lot of different people pretty much every single time when we enter through the real world. You can still be surrounded by online mutruals, crowds, followers on SNS, or friend groups, but still experess feelings of lonliness, alone, or feeling misunderstood. Nobody likes the feelings of those things that I've already had stated- and sadly this is something more and more people are expericing almost every single day as less people slowly sttop building more connections face to face & more digitally through phone screens. I know I am the one who is stating this as someone who posts myself online through this blog & on my social media, which is why I think I had to include myself into this too since it won't be fair for me to act as a hypocrite. A simple example to reflect through this is how you can have a young girl who is around my age have many online & in real life friends and sit with a large group of people & is interactive with them. But the thing is no one sees in her soul is that she is experieicing feelings of loneliness & feeling misunderstood. Believe it or not, this is something I always experieince more frequently than I ever thought. I always am surrounded with a group of my close friends who I talked to in my daily life but always my mind is telling me that I don't belong there & these people do not understand me. And it's hard too especially when your like me who is still is a teenage woman and also is neurodivergent, that's where things get's 5X more harder even as someone who faced many challenges & trauma from my past. A lot of people overlook the life of a teenager, but really it isn't easy of being one, even especially when your are a young Catholic woman (๏ฝฐ ๏ฝฐ; ) This might be harder for people especially who had never experienced loneliness, but for the women and girls who had can relate to this ( ◜‿◝ )♡ I don't know, but just recently I've been feeling alone for having no anchor person in my life- basically someone who I always easily link & connect myself to. There is this one girl in my class who always comes up to me and say that I'm friends with her, but in actuality I'm really am just friendly to her & we do not have anything in common at all for the true relationship to form. She is a nice person after all, but just that there is no connection for us both ton form much of a deeper relationship. I don't know if it's her mistaken my friendliness as her wanting to be friends with me, but personally to me I don't see any of the connection when I'm with her, even whenever I am surrounded with my close friends for the most of the time ( ._. )"" I guess I can say the same way for myself whenever I used to have so much muturals online on my social media. Beforehand, I used to feel temporary sastifaction for having lots of online muturals who I've never knew or met, however as it progresses it got to the point where I rarely talked to & how there isn't any form of true connection towards any of those people who had followed for having the same thing in common such as liking gyaru fashion or beauty & fashion in general. Now that isn't the case no more ever since I lost a number of followers of being open to my Christian lifestyle, the loneliness sometimes still lingers around me by the enemy sending me attacks & the lies for me to believe which I know that are untrue and goes aganist of what God thinks of me (´･ะท･) despite how I still now have the stability & peace by havinging those people who choose to leave volantarily by unfollow me (while a small number just blocking me) on my social media, the loneliness & the unhappiness still catches up back to me from the enemy who is sending attacks & decietful messaging to me whenever I'm in that rut. I did rememeber & reflect back from the time of several years ago where a teacher told me & the whole religion class I was in that you can be surrounded with a large group of people in some social gathering or a crowd and still feel that you don't belong there. Back then I didn't understood it, but now as I am getting older & come to a realization, I slowly began to reflect & learn of what he is saying is true. Another testimony I feel like sharing on here is how I am currently right now is how I am facing loneliness mainly because I decided to take my walk with Christ very seriously. I feel the reason to this is mostly because of how I have different values & beliefs + w/ life-long comittments than other girls in my age or in my generation, & also want deeper & logical conversations & strictly faith-centered relationships. When I mean I wanted faith-centered friendships, I don't mean it in a way where I don't want to befriend people outside from the Christian faith or people who are agnostic or atheists (which I should definetly be mindful of FYI,) but I rather mean it in a way where I want to be more intentional & careful of who should I allow myself to have a connection with & have other Chrstian friends who would help me to grow spiritually & not pull me away from Christ. Basically in other words what I mean is that I wanted to befriend other people who are likeminded as me & share the same values & faith like me so we can grow intentfully in our faith with Jesus ♡ It's extremely hard to invest through this for female friendships especially where you look around and see other girls who do not take their faith seriously or have no connection to God whatsoever (´･･`) I get it there are clubs & youth groups, but either way nonetheless- you can still experience those same feelings regardless even when you feel you are at the right place. And sadly this is what I've been experieicing from the past & even up to now (๏ฝฐ ๏ฝฐ; ) The thing I did learned after just reflecting back through all of these is that physical company by having someone or being surrounded by a group of people does not remove loneliness. This can also apply too how that the same loneliness you & I may be experiencing can sometimes come from a long yearning or cravining for genuine human connection. I somehow had to learn this though the hard way after I've noticed for myself the people I've been hanging around with aren't who where I'm looking for genuine connection, or after learning or coming to a realization that God doesn't want me to surround myself with those group of people or that induvidual. I can even see this through the people I always talk to every single day based through the spiritual emptiness & shallowness I've always been feeling. People always shrug off loneliness as if it's something you can shake off.. but when you wanting to have real & genuine connection with someone or a group of people who truly want to uplift or encourage you, that's where it hurts badly.. (ू˃̣̣̣̣̣̣︿˂̣̣̣̣̣̣ ू) And if I'm being honest with you guys, I don't blame other people, even Christians as well saying that they are experieicing themselves feeling lonely & have no one to turn to. I don't want to say all of these to sound negative when I'm really am not a negative person in reality, but rather I am pointing these out for me to point out a general universial issue that almost everyone is facing currently, especially women and girls alike altogether. Now on the postive note- how this can go back to connecting to bibical femninity is that this psalm verse I reflect to reminds all of us that God sees each one of our sorrow & craving or genuine connection that no human eye can see outwardly. Why this can be the case is that you can have a bibical femninime woman yearning for a sincere friendship, emotional safety, deeper connection, & spiritiual understanding, and not shallow & surface-level relationships that aren't as genuine & in depth & that it seeks temporary validation. The same thing can apply to the other passage from Psalm 68:6 where it does have the partical saying "God gives the lonely a home to live in." The context behind this does shows that God does not desire people to remain spiritually isolated forever in their lives, and I don't have to go through this one since I've already had shared my own testimony through the other scripture (•แด•,, ) A young girl around my age as for example can laugh with people daily, constantly socialize & act friendly to others & attend parties & school events, yet still experience the feelings of loneliness. Do you guys now understand where this is coming from? When we go and step back & reflect back through the modern secular culture we are living in where it often encourages validation-based relationshops & surface-level friendships with 0% connection, this is where it can creates lots of emptiness & emotional isolation to someone, and guess what..? It can be way harder for someone who has been already in that state for a long period of time (´･_･｀) This is where I now begin to have a clear understanding of what my past teacher means by being surrounded by a people daily does not mean the same thing as being emotionally connected. I really hope & pray for many Christian women and girls to realize & learn the same thing I had to learn, because when we slowly make connections and reflect together through this, this is where we slowly figure out true solutions where it brings in peace & clarity for each one of us & for everyone around us ๐ฅฒ It even sucks too when you feel you stick out like a sore thumb where you are around others who mock humility & praised pride & viewing modesty as something you are hiding or being overlooked. It comes across that way too especially when your having your own faith journey with Christ (◞ ‸ ◟ใ) Or when in today's culture where gentleness is seen as a form of weakness in many cultures all across the globe & how quietness is seen as you being invisible. Now this is the case? Simple, how modern femninism shapes how many women and girls in this society think & view things. Again- this is what I rtruly mean this is a real hard struggle when you are a woman or girl in this shattered & misguided world where you want to build & develop meaningful friendships with a flavour of shared fath & emotional sincerity. I myself see myself through this lenses where I'm apart of different online communities + being surrounded with different girls & classmates while still experieicing no connection by still feeling spiritually distant & emotionally misunderstood. That's why it always makes a lot more sense for a Christian convert or a revert to have a desire to have a God-centered connection with friends & a community while having people who will encourage their faith & spiritual life ( ´･ แต･)๏พ(´ แต `˶) not to mention also how it does go back connection to fellowship & unity & how it comes back to me reflecting earlier on this blog where I have a strong desire to want a devout Catholic husband who is God-fearing, but also who is emotionally gentle, spiritually serious, and yes of course he would respect my values & faith •⩊• I know that day would come sometime down the road for me in the future, which is why I really do need to practice patience & trust in the Lord which is something I am currently am working on, hehehehe... (แต‿แต ") only reason why I pointed this out for myself & what God already knows through my own desires is mainly because of how I wanted emotional safety, peace, & unity in my life alongwith with obviously a shared purpose with me and my future hubby, ww ( ˘͈ แต ˘͈♡) it's beautiful to reflect through this scripture through bibical femninity because what this other second verse talks about more is it emphasizes on the "home" which the Lord has promised can reflect on the sense of belonging, comfort, sincere companionship, & obviously a spiritual family. I suppose the same way can be applied for a Christian woman wanting her friends to respect her faith & have a clear understanding of modesty & virtue while sharing the similiar morals and values together (◡ ‿ ◡ .) right now I don't have people in my life as friends who are like this in my life, but I know that evetually maybe I'll meet someone who is like this that the Lord has setted aside for me ¯\_(ใ)_/¯ this is one thing I do love how bibical femninity sees it! the main thing it does goes back & have the restored vision to is how the desire comes from wanting sincere connection, not from superficial belonging. I do really hope & pray that more and more people eventually learn this as well as the Holy Spirit maybe talks to them through their heartt, despite how a lot of people even thrse in my generation are in a loneliness crisis right now (｡•́︿•̀｡) thats why the main message of this verse too is that it reminds us all that shared faith can create a deeper sense of spiritual companionship, which is something I really need to be told to myself & I hope you learn this too ☺
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ok!~ ๐ฎ๐จ Now that is over, we're going to move on talking about Esther 14:4. Before I explain the story behind this verse is, let me explain the meaning behind what this verse sends. The context behind this of the message being sent is how God can place people in certain situations in life for a meaningful purpose, even when they are feeling afraid, uncertain, or unprepared, even when it involves helping others. This message should sound familiar to most of you guys since I recalled myself mentiong this along the similiar lines, heh!~ เดฆ്เดฆി ( แต แด แต ) The story of this verse is that it ties back to where it was during a time when Jewish people were in danger & they needed help. Esther (who was one of the women from the Old Testament) was the only person who was availabile & was close enough to the king to help protect the other Jewish people who were in danger. Also during that time too, her cousin Mordecai told her that maybe it was God who was the one who allowed her to become queen for a situation she was in, meaning that the position she was in has a greater purpose for her. I'm not sure how to connect this to the real world and bibical femninity in a real way, but I guess I'll do my best at least even through I may be wrong, www.. ^^; The breif conclusion of the story is that Mordecai is telling Esther that God was the one who've placed her in that situation not for no reason, but for a purpose. I'm sure many of us had been unexpectantly placed in situations where we were the ones who had to take action or courage to solve the issue by using our femninity skills ๐ I had been through some instances where I was in a few of certain situations, but it is going to take all day for me to tell & I don't want to bore you guys any longer as you guys already are, www.. ^_^||| however I would say I do have a brief testimony for me to share with you guys, however that I will be saving til the end (⑅⌒_⌒⑅)๏พ How this can be conected to the modern world through the femninst constrast is how I personally somehow see modern femninisim teaching women and girls of this world that being gentleness is a sign of weakness, dependance in a way that is balanced & healthy is shameful while showing your own vulnerability as well (＃＞＜) the same messaginig can apply sadly to motherhood & homemaking which I've already had talked about earlier .･๏พ๏พ･(／ฯ＼)･๏พ๏พ･. the thing which does showcases bibical femninity through Esther's own character is that a bibical femninime woman can be emotionally soft & intelligent, but also she can showcase her elegance, compassion, and femninity to everyone else & to herself of who she is (◑‿◐) mind you- she can showcase all her traits through her own character but also still have influence (in a good way of course!,) courage (which is the whole message of this verse,) leadership skills, dignity & self-respect, & intelligence. There is a reason why I didn't go too much in detail for the secular world contrast otherwise it would be me saying things that are repetitive & I think you guys may now understand where this is going (＠゜▽゜) I am going to go on mostly on the bibical femninime side just to make this sound a bit more lighthearted than the other paragraphs (＾๏ผต＾)ใ~๏ผน๏ผฏ ！ An example from this world we are living in is that there are some (or I shall say most) Christian women (even I myself!) always feel the puressure to hide our faith from others just to avoid judgement & bullying on one end. This is something I always had been struggling with even up to now as a constant battle because of how I want to feel the courage to express myself that I'm a believer, but it's also hard because of how I feel so tempted to blend in and appear to want to be cool to others I talk to. When I mean that being a Christian woman is hard, it really is... but at the same time however Christ did say we need to carry our own crosses daily & there would be obstacles in our way which doesn't promise an easier life ใฝ(หให)ใ another thing which most Christian women and girls in this world are puressured from society to do since we are counter-cultural is to mock gentleness as a form of opporession & reject traditional femninity entirely to seek temporarily validation. It's sad and devastating to see this because many girls don't want to do this because they want to be accepted from the society or the people they are surroubnded with, but they are doing this just to survive socially, otherwise they would be left out being ostrasized being labelled as the Odd-1's-Out & or an ugly duckling (￣︿￣) many people would say to me or to other Christian women perhaps that this isn't a big deal, but it somehow it really is based through what this verse is reflecting On the bright side of things, bibical femninity shows a postive light to this through Esther's character แ(แ)แ It's true that Esther was feeling hesitant when she was picked by God to save the Jewish people, but what her story does reminds us is that you do not need to abandon your own femninity to showcase your confindence but still remain to have quiet courage & softness. I don't know- but I can see this come & connect back to me because of how I used to be Esther but in a way where I felt the anxiety & fear of expressing my femninity, faith, & my personal values outwardly. My personal testimony through this how I used to struggle with my self-confindence during my younger & teenage years of my life by always being fearful of standing out. I've been raised inside a family where dressing differently in your own style = bad & rebellious, and I guess I can say the same way based off the culture I've came from & the society I was in where it puressures everyone through comformity (︶︹︺) Ever since I decided to express myself by wearing vintage fashion & gyaru fashion, it didn't only made me look elegant & cute, but it also did help me to become confindent in myself as well ^^. I used to have a strong desire of trying out those fashion styles when I wasn't dressing myself in any of these ones during my younger years right until last year where I had the personal courage to express myself through them (｡･ฯ･｡) now understand that this my view and understand of modesty & femninity through my self-image, and it's going to look different for every woman which is why I'm talking about it through my perspective ส•̠͡•ส while I was dressing myself through those fashion styles & also living through that lifestyle, my confindence also slowly build up more as I slowly develop a close-bonded relationship with Christ & how He is the one who've reminded me that he did not create myself to constantly shrink myself just to blend into the world because of how I was fearfully and wonderfully made through His own image ส•แดฅ•ส For me personally, being a gyaru & a Catholic woman at the same time helps me to be more expressive through showing my own femninity while still remaining confindent & lively in myself & my own faith in Jesus & Mama Mary- two of my spiritual caretakers (ใค╥﹏╥)ใค I understand that some people may not get where I am coming from through my connection of my testimony at first, but as I go back & reflect back to this- I start to believe that I feel the true confindence within me that God has given me once I start to belive & trust in Him more & slowly recover myself to stop shrinking myself & know who I am (u‿ฺu✿) because of this, I know & how am self-aware that my confindence isn't me idolizing the whole fashion & beauty I do that is apart of my daily life- but rather the confindence I had now currently is much more healthier when it mainly is rooted through my identidy in Christ instead of depending on the validation through others in this society. This does actually comes back & reminds me a bit of my own life despite how it is much smaller than esther's, www ^^' but I'll go on ahead & tell you guys anyway. ever since I I often express my faith publicly through both in real life & online through the dignital world, I always worried of the feeling of rejection or being misunderstood because of how I was fearful that people would be distance away from me. I did slowly began to notice too after I continue to be more open about my Catholic faith that some people would slowly choose to unfollow or disengage with me online because of how I am more open to expressing my beliefs & values. The same thing does apply in real life except I began to notive that soeme people would stop talking or hanging around me + how I slowly began to feel uncomfortable of the things I used to do always that are sinful. At first it did hurt me a lot deeply, but overtime I slowly began to realize something way more important through this after I became a revert to the Christian faith (´• ฯ •`) because of this, I had to learn it the hard way & a lesson that is valuable for me to know: just because people reject your beilefs, faith, & values or your own gentleness/softness, doesn't mean you should hide who you are just to conform to the world around you. I don't know.. but I throught it was interesting for me to share my own testimony based on how it does connect to Esthers situation God put her in ◝(⑅•แด•⑅)◜..°♡ sure Esther did felt afraid too, but the main message of how it reflect though bibical femninity of her story is that she still had the courage to do what is right even through she was feeling fearful. I can see myself connecting this back to bibical femninity even though most people don't see it that way, because at the end it shows that a woman a woman can still be emotionally gentle, elegant, soft-spoken, & femninime while still having the courage & strength within herself ♡
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Alright guys, we are now moving on to the next verses which is 1 Thessalonians 4:3-6. By now, you guys should already know that we start off by discussiong starting off from the first verse which is 1 Thessalonians 4:3 („• ֊ •„)เฉญ this one is truly an interesting one to get deep into, but it may also ruffle some feathers to some people. So be aware, cuz I may say things that are truthful but it also is going to hurt others through a spiritual level & also through tough love ☆～（ใ。∂）some people won't like me for saying the things I would mention later on gently, but oh well- it's my blog after all, so what can I say? ╮(￣▽￣"")╭ anywho- let's get straight into the meaning because this is the important part to know about before the discussion (˶แต แต แต˶) the whole verse is emphasizing that God is teaching us as His fellow believers to live our lives purely, respectfully, & through self-control and not through lust and selfishness. Now again folks, this can go back to where it ties to the modesty & historical vs. femninity discussion. I hope many of you guys are aware of this by now cuz I am going to discuss about it differently but quite breifly (｡- .•) you see in the modern culture we live in, many of us as Christian women observe a lot that there is a silent unspoken puressure to be or present ourselves a certain way to the world & through social media. The common one to look at is where people wants to attract others through their flesh- which are lust mainly & selfishness. Why I mentioned lust & selfishness you may ask? It's very complex, but I will try to explain it in the way you and me can understand, heh!~ ^^; The simplier way to see why I've stated these wrords is mainly the fact how we live in a society (or I shall say- world) where women ( & men too!) are constantly are objectified or sexualized through the media & real life such as pornography & other forms of sexual/adult media being displayed or being discuss about. Stuff online such as OnlyFans and other porn websites are designed for people to & for women entirely to seek validarion online through people intentionally sexualizing themselves with out without them even realizing about it. Not only through that, but also off from those websites, we have women and girls alike who compare themselves constantly to other women and girls & chase temporary romantic & friendships. I've already had gotten through these in detail through the last discussions, but I would be making a clear statement that all of these things result to the girl not knowing her worth feeling she is less than, alongside with her facing unhappiness to the point where she self-loathes on herself & other worse things that can happen. There are women in this world who are involve in this media say that they are happy in the place they are, but when we sit and discern about, is this really the case? Because when we truly look through it in depth, pornography is designed to slowly destroy women by men using them as object & less as human beings. This is where a human dignity can be destroyed easily & I highly doubt this is a place where no woman would find their happiness. Some people might be upset at me for saying this, but this is unfortunately the truth & when you do your research on this, it does claim the reality. When you really go back & reflect through this, this is the same messagining in whcih morden femninism always wants to bring out with the motto: "what whatever feels good immediately." Before someone else gets it through the wrong turn, there is nothing wrong with this saying entirely, but my issue is that it allows the person not to practice self-control & not respect their own dignity of theirs. It's very understandable for all of us to be aware that our bodies are a sacred temple of the Holy Spirit & we can't abuse it by practicing sexual sin and immorality by dishoniring ourselves. Yes!- I know what I am saying here sounds a bit harsh & blunt to some of you guys, but if you go back to the 1 Timothy verse I talked about from the beginning, this is where most of you guys would see the pattern.. ՞߹ - ߹՞ It's very sad, and that's why it is important for me and us as Christian women to pray for these women where they can have their dignity restored from the Lord & find their true hapiness and worth somewhere else aside from adult work or pornography (╥แบ╥；) if Jesus desiples, even Mary Madgalene would see women practcing presenting themselves lustfully, she would wept despite how she was one of the desiples of Jesus who was a ex-sex worker. This can apply for other female Catholic saints too if they came into the real world we are in and see women dishonoring their bodies & not respecting themselves even when they claim they do แด̈ I don't know why.. but I find it very sad how hookup culture is targetting lost souls of younger women & girls in my generation being controlled or the nicer way to put it- feeling puressued to need to feel of sexualizing themselves to feed into other people desires.. ˙◠˙this is where this verse's passage mentions the following: "For this is the will of God, you sanctification that you abstain from sexual immorailty," and while I am learning through this too, I now start to slowly understand why Chirstianity challenges modern hookup & the hypersexualized culture that comes from it (｡•́︿•̀｡) not in a bad way of course, but to in a way where it challenges the morality of people respecting themselves & their own bodies. Part of me wants to condemn & shame these women- which I strongly do have that feeling, but however I don't want to do that but rather feel sorrow for them & sympathy for them. Even as someone who have 0 plans of going into that lifestyle or never been apart of it at all, we need to be considereate as Christian women & all women in general that these women are human beings at the end of the day & most of them didn't asked to be apart of anything like this lifestyle or job (｡•ห‸ห•｡) now on the positive note, how bibbical femninity reflects through this gently is how it has a restored vision of seeing intimacy as something that is meaningful, emotionmal, sacred, & obviously something that is connected to love & commitment. As I am reflecting through this, this I believe is the main reason why I & many other Christian women value or desire intentional friendships or romantic relationships where it has a strong sense of commitment, mutual respect & emmotional safety. I don't know how to put this, but I start to feel that I am starting to get sick and tired when intimacy starts to go sour by it leading through temporary sastifaction. What I mean by this is the constant validation & the need that uopu need to shrink & dishonor yourself to be respected by the society around you. It's a good thing I had the integrity to know my place & who I am as a person <(˶แตแตแต˶)> I don't know if it's just me feeling this way or if other Christian women feel the exact same way, but through this I guess this can explain the long-term loneliness I've been having since my childhood up to my late teen years who soon is reaching early adulthood later this month (◞‸ ◟)๐งit also does point out another thing which I soon just realized just now that the amount of women promoting themselves in a lustfull way does come back to the idea of hyper-independance & sexual liberation from the past century up to now- meaning that women have many sex with different partners or present themselves in a way without any limits. Sadly this is where the idea of casual romantic relationships come from which breaks the idea of what sexual & emotional intimacy is & marriage as a whole. I don't know if it's just me, but I just learned just now that this can be perhaps a possibility (เน•́ -•̀) the thing which bibical femninity shows based on how this verse talks about is that it reminds a woman that self-control/temperance matters along with your own dignity. It does talkabout how holiness matters more than temporary pleasure through lustful acts & pleasures of the flesh based on how our own body and soul have value- which is it being a temple of the Holy Spirit. I know that I am aware that I am still young and inexperienced of this world, however it is important for me to gently remind myself too & other both men and women altogether all of these based on how Christianity enitrely teaches that intimacy affects our own emotions and actions effects our own sul whenever if we want to believe or accept it or not. And aslso too- this scripture does emphasizes through the lenses of bibical femninity that people shouldn't be in a relationship for selfish reasons or desires, but rather they're together to respect the sacredness of intimacy in a relationship (─ ‿ ─)
Speaking of the other scripture, the other one is going to sound already similiar to the last one we've just talked about, hehehehehehehehe!~ ^_^" 1 Thessalonians 4:4 emphasizes on something that is really important which is simply us learning self-discipline, respect, & more importantly of course.. self-control. I can see why this wasn't a coincidence as why I've included this one in, www ๊ (≧ใฎ≦) to clarify this with more simplier detail, what this really means that God called each one of us to treat others & ourselves & our own bodies with honor & dignity, again something that is truly sacred. I guess you can say where this is a passage comes from.. "that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness & honor." I will be connecting this to my own testimony similiar to the other one, but more so as an example, hehehe! How this connects to my own testmony which happened just recently in my life in a interesting way to me is that after I showcase my own femninity & try to become intentional spiritually, I wasn't trying to reject my femninity & beauty, but rather what I've done is to align it gently into my faith, modesty, & my own dignity in general (˶แต แต แต˶) now before I clarify this again, this verse isn't saying that women must hide their own beauty, abandon their femninity, or to hide themselves completely, but what bibical femninity does emphasizes to every woman and girl is that your body is valuable and your soul is too ♡ it also does reminds all of us too that modesty is connected to self-respect of a person & shows that gentleness and purity are true strengths, not weaknesses. I do not know, but there is something about this world now which I did catch on where femninism is painting purity as sonmething that is seen as a threat. I can't pinpoint why it is this way, but my theory is that I think it has a connection hwere I observed other women mainly online shaming other women who choose to be pure through abstinence or religious life. Maybe I suppose it can apply too by not doing this of this world as well in general by simply not catching on into trends or things that are sexual or violent of its nature ｢( • ๏พ •) those parts I do not know- which is why you guys are more than welcome to correct me if I'm wrong or share your own experiences of how this may had affected you. I don't know, I do get it does spark different reactions & opinions which can explain why it's a sensitive topic for me to touch on. To some women, the reason they critize purity culture is because to them, they maybe perhaps experienced shame or fear from others by others around the teachings of their own bodies or sexuality, or it can a theory of being tied back to abuse or unhealthy control where they were taught that their worth depends only on their virginity or modesty. I do feel sorry for the women who had to faced those experiences, byt unfortunately this is what Christianity teaches about what purity is and it shows a much healthier & deeper meaning than the abuse and double standards they have to face, I am not saying this to sound insensitive or to dismiss their negative experiences, but all of this actually comes from the real hurt of the people who've manipulated or harmed them, and this isn't what this verse teaches. From before through the bibical context, the word "purity" means something way completely different. It doesn't mean that women are dirty or sexuality is evil or dehumanizing, but rather it showcases something comepletely the opposite to what others are thinking. Instead what purity truly means is really it's about self-control/temperance, emotional spirritual maturity, treating love & relationships with dignity, and of course more importantly.. respecting your own body and others which what defines modesty of what it is. And don't think this only applies to women alone, this does apply to men too! I understand that some people may rub the wrong message based through the context of purity, but through the bibical femninity perspective through the lenses of Christianity, what it means is when I mentioned "gentleness and purity are true strengths," what it simply talks about is that it frames purity being emotionally sincere, modesty, respectful, & showcasing spiritual discipline. Another important fact to add into this is how a pure woman can value a meaningful connection with someone without showing lust or validation (˶หแห˵) I know I've made a distinction in this blog but what I'm proving here through my point is that purity culture that is manipulative & unhealthy is harmful to women & is wrong, however when purity is being shown to others in a Christ-like manner rooted in love, dignity, holiness, and self-respect, this is where it creates a differents & truly emphasizes on what it really is (˶˃ แต ˂˶)
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