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If I meet a guy I believe I want to marry,
what do I do then? I'm used to just going after what I
want. How can I wait and yet not seem to be stand-offish?
Is it okay to ask God for him?
You know, if I were giving out prizes for questions, this one would be a definite winner…at least in the female category.
What’s a girl supposed to DO???!!!!
If the guys think it’s hard for them to pursue, I (being female) think it’s double-hard for us women to sit still!
But who can say which is worse? :o)
I’m
going to start this picture by painting a dark background, another “How
It Is” scenario. But so as not to discourage you, I’m also going
to paint some really bright possibilities in the foreground. You
see, godly Christian wife-prospects should shine clear and beautiful
against the gloom.
We live in a world of mothers and little
boys. I don’t even have to prove it to you; you know it
already. But what young lady really wants to marry a child, and what young man really wants to marry another mother?
As
I said somewhere earlier, the only way boys become men is for their
mothers to back away and their dads (or some other father-figure) to
call them into manhood. But with everything flowing in the wrong
direction for so many decades, there aren’t many men left to do that in
this world.
Unfortunately, women, there’s not much we can change about this.
However…I
have faith to believe we can change the mother part, at least in our
own little corners of the world. But I’m not promising it’ll be
easy.
Let’s begin by thinking about the similarities between
motherhood and wifehood. I don’t want us to become confused about
this, and reject something we need to keep. Both mothers and
wives are to be homemakers, creating a haven of peace and beauty in a
crazy and too often cruel world. Both mothers and wives are
promoters of health and sanity. Both are comforters and
encouragers.
The difference lies in what’s getting to be
familiar territory: masculinity and femininity. You see, for a
while mom plays a definite “masculine” role in her young children’s
lives. She leads and guides and provides for and protects.
Of course, dad will be masculine as well, a little more
behind-the-scenes perhaps when the children are babies, and gradually
more “out front” as they grow older.
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