Feminine Appeal--Feeling blessed by this book!

I just finished reading the first chapter of Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney. Wow! I am looking forward to this journey through the seven virtues of a godly wife and mother in Titus 2.

In the foreword Nancy Leigh DeMoss shares:

"Christian women--no less than nonbelieving women--are in desperate need of the truth. The look of frustration, pain, or hollowness in so many eyes tells the story of women who are generally disappointed with life. They feel victimized--even traumatized--by circumstances that have fallen short of their hopes and dreams. As far as they are concerned, life just isn't working.

And the problem goes even deeper than what is obvious at first glance. I believe this sense of confusion and distress among Christian women is because, by and large, we are profoundly disoriented about who God is and who we are, and about our calling and mission in life--as women. Almost en masse we have bought into a way of thinking about life and about womanhood, marriage, and family that is culturally accepted and politically correct but fundamentally flawed. For sure, it has not delivered what it promised."



The author, Carolyn Mahaney, shares in the first chapter:

"Isn't it telling that our culture requires training and certification for so many vocations of lesser importance, but hands us marriage and motherhood without instruction? Fortunately, God hasn't left us to fend for ourselves. He has provided invaluable wisdom for women in His Word.

If we question whether we are investing our lives in what is truly important, we have received the plumb line for women straight from holy Scripture. Look at the clear instructions found in the second chapter of Titus, verses 3 to 5:"

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Today I am incredibly thankful to be growing in Christ and learning to be the wife and mother God intended me to be. I continue to pray that our journey is a testimony that blesses and inspires you and yours.

Blessings to you all!

Keira