Some thoughts to warm you and some ideas to study on

Beth Allison has been catching lots of grief for this post. Her book The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth ( Brazos Press, 2021

should be standard reading and discussion material for all of us.

This is from Judi Tarowsky, who writes "On the U.S.S. Arizona in January 2020. This allows visitors to look down onto the ship. When a ship survivor dies, if he wishes, his ashes are interred in a special place on the ship. Divers access it through this opening, with full Navy ceremonies. It is a deeply emotional and spiritual place to visit. The memorial wall with the names about did me in."

This post came to me by way of Sam Swan and has the following story with it;

A son took his father to a restaurant to enjoy a delicious dinner. His father is quite old

and therefore ,a little weak too. While eating, food occasionally fell on his shirt and pants.

The other guests watched the old man with their faces contorted in disgust, but his son

remained calm. After they both finished eating, the son quietly helped his father and took

him to the toilet. Cleaned food scraps from his crampled face and attempted to wash food

stains on his clothes, graciously combed his gray hair and finally put on his glasses.

As they left the restroom, a deep silence reigned in the restaurant. The son paid their bill 

but just before they leave, a man, also old, got up and ask the old man’s son , “Don’t you

think you left something here?”

The young man replied “I did not leave anything.”

Then the stranger said to him, ”You left a lesson here for every son and a hope for every

father.” The whole restaurant was so quiet, you could hear a pin drop!

One of the greatest honours that exist ,is being able to take care of those who have taken

care of us too. Our parents and all those elders who sacrificed their lives with all their time, money and effort for us, deserve our utmost respect.