I've been watching Laura (Bush! heehee as if you didn't know!) trot around the globe lately with the help of mary (she likes the small "m" and its her doing not mine, so it's her being humble and not me making her so, especially in consideration of my topic, uh hmm). Laura is trying to raise Women's Issues up to the Arabic (male) Mindset and bring a modicum of relief for the downtrodden wonderful feminine human in the Middle East, of which my good friend Roya is one! Now, I am a Sound Fundamentalist Christian who also has a good open mind and can hold subjects in Moratorium with the best of them, and so I know full well that the Bible is adamantly specific, hey, GOD, is being specific that the Man is the head of the Woman and there is no if's and's but's or maybe's about this. You might now think that this settle's the issue, but then one does know GOD oh so little. HE makes a thing so, so that HE can by contrast, bring the opposite to pass! (Plunge us all in deep sin, so as to save us all, being only one example!). Oh my! Only GOD could do this. Doesn't the Bible say somewhere that "7 women will surround a man someday saying just marry us, we have money enough just please marry us"? thereby taking title from the man? Isn't it after all Eve, ahh, Mary (capitalised!) who brought the Saviour into the world and thereby brought deliverance of this entire world system, of which "Man is head of Woman" is one, and so that the Bible also says "IN CHRIST, there is no male or female"? (I won't do your homework for you this time and will make you look for the references themselves! A good concordance is easy enough to buy! But I'll only do this to you once, just so that you learn to appreciate that I do this).
In my home life growing up, my father was the weak one and my mother the strong one and the definite and hands-down leader of the home. So, its not hard for me to see the headship of women. But, I also saw in my mother a weakness, --- say, a "sort of slipped-disk-mentality" to her at times. Almost like she never wanted the post and only took it because someone had to and her love for her children over ruled her reluctance to take the job. But, she'd so much rather and gladly have given it back to my father! He never took it. But this subject has played out in my mind over the years, (I'm 54 now), and I have come to somewhat of a conclusion tho like I said earlier, I can still Moratoriumize. The thought came to me one day, and I realize that it has to be the title of the future book I will write on this subject, "BARBED WIRE AND FENCEPOSTS". Women are half of the man that GOD took out of Adam symbolized by a rib. When GOD says they become "ONE" it is not because 1+1=1? but rather 1/2 + 1/2 = 1! Ahhh! Much better! My Math always did me in good stead! Neither is whole without the other. Man, tho the supposed head, is only half, trying to rule another half, and you could imagine what it would be like for a body part like maybe a Hand saying I Rule the whole deal? Even the Brain that does rule the whole show can't say it, because the hand or foot or eye can say "Forget it" and disobey. It needs obedience and or compliance.
My point being, in this life yes, Man has been given headship for whatever reason, maybe because Eve ate an apple first, but, this was never GOD's intention, and once we had plunged ourselves into this mess, HE had to protect the woman by giving her a loving man to take care of her in her weak state, rather than leave her out in the jungle defenseless? A woman is better off to be sure with a good man leading her! But, women lack a certain something. The dynamic skill of being boss without an edge. Sorry, that's the best I can define it if you don't like it. But, when a woman has such great ideas, she is still not grounded. She can't bring her project to successful fulfillment alone. But, like a barbed wire, she is loose and floats around and the cattle all get out and all the wealth of the farm is lost. But, as soon as she finds her Mate! Voila!! She is tacked onto his Fencepost and the fence is built and all is well! Or not? What if this man is like my father, who reneged on his part? If the fence post isn't stuck deep into the ground, well then that fence is still useless and all is lost. No, only when both are doing their parts together is there such a thing as being "One" and a working solution!
Ray Gunn
