30. Let Me Be a Woman - Elisabeth Elliot

---Notes to My Daughter on the Meaning of Womanhood
"In order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her."

She quotes Scriptural texts here and there and gives the scriptural basis for her thoughts/advices. A well-thought out, comprehensive advice book to a daughter who is about to get married. Elliot writes from her own experience and God's Word about womanhood, and the difference between men and women. We are called to live out our feminism, not to strive to match the men in every aspect as we are created different. True freedom is living according to the design, within the rules as a sailboat has to obey the rules of the water and wind to sail freely. Hierarchy does not equal superiority, although these two have been equated in societies.
The chapters on "you are marrying a man, a husband, a sinner, ..." give really practical examples and point out the sometimes overlooked obvious differences between a man and woman that often give rise to conflicts and false expectations.
Ultimately, there is true freedom and beauty in living as a woman created by God.

17 Aug-22 Sep 2017
Carol Stream: Tyndale, 1976