I AM A TIRED WOMAN is the title of the following anonymous article [marked by the *’s] I ran across a few years ago. (Excuse me if it offends you by saying this, but the author had no issue with saying she was a woman, and no difficulty verbalizing women are in some ways different from men! The piece is worthy of thought by women …. and men in these morally and spiritually mixed-up days of debate and battle over “gender.” Read it and see.)
* I AM A TIRED WOMAN … tired of being told that I am not happy, and that any illusions I might have to the contrary are indicative of a low mentality or at best a lack of originality and imaginative thinking.
* I AM A TIRED WOMAN … weary of those married females who, having made a shambles of their own marriage, tell us that the institution of marriage won’t work, who having found themselves unequal to the task of finding happiness in marriage, intimate that we are less than adequate if we do not seek fulfillment outside of marriage.
* I AM A TIRED WOMAN … tired up to here” with those who choose to ignore the basic and most apparent differences between men and women and their capabilities, thereby proving once more the truth of the old adage that “there is none so blind as he who will not see.”
* I AM A TIRED WOMAN … and full of pity for those who complain of being the playthings of men while they strut around in broad daylight in such a state of undress that they leave no doubt whatever as to what they consider their primary function in this life. * I AM A TIRED WOMAN … tired of watching those who have never learned the art and grace of being a woman, yet seek to undermine everything that is feminine, trying to make men and women carbon copies of each other, not for the betterment of mankind but for the sole purpose of satisfying their own selfish desires.
* I AM A TIRED WOMAN … fed up with those who are so interested in their own so-called “rights” that they actually want to pass a bill making it illegal to treat us like women, stomping thus on the rights of those who have found fulfillment in being a woman.
* I AM A TIRED WOMAN … yes, but I AM A WOMAN, and I like it that way!
Somebody said, “Our generation is becoming so busy trying to prove that women can do what men can do that women are losing their uniqueness. Women weren’t created to do everything a man can do. Women were created to do everything a man can’t do” (sounds like Genesis 2:18). Roseanne Barr made this provocative statement: “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” It needs to be carefully and contextually studied, but in contrast great to Roseanne’s grab for power, God’s Book still sends this call to Christian women who are wives: “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body” (Ephesians 5:22-23) [men aren’t off the hook — get a Bible and read Ephesians 5:25-33]. The bottom line is until submitting to Christ is harmful and unhealthy to the church, a Christian woman who submits to the spiritual leadership of a loving and self-sacrificing husband is good for her and her home and pleases the God who designed her and her husband! Serious-minded Christians — women and men — must continue to consider and respect God-given gender roles.
Dan Gulley, Smithville TN
