Or, I am alone.” I thought how true this is also. I am a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend. “Most women define themselves in terms of their relationships, and the quality they deem those relationships to have. I think we take for granted or put down who we are, what power we have, and what are purpose is. I don’t know, it just kind of strikes me that, as I am a woman, I received a special touch from God in his design of me. “She was not “created” as things were, out of nothing, nor “formed” as Adam was, out of the dust of the earth, being in the same form as man but “made” out of refined and quickened dust, or the flesh and bones of man, and so in her make and constitution fine and lovely or “built” (n), as the word signifies, which is used, because she is the foundation of the house or family, and the means of building it up: or rather to denote the singular care and art used, and fit proportion observed in the make of her: ” Here’s how the commentary of Gill puts it: ![]() She is the Master’s finishing touch.” Wow! You know, I learned a few years ago that there is a difference between the words used to say that God made man and God made woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish not with Adam, but with Eve. ![]() “She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Even though I feel like my contributions to this family are taken for granted, I am in many ways irreplaceable, or at least I know that I would NEED to be replaced. Like the comment “I feel like a household appliance.” You know, we take these things for granted but when they are gone, we replace them right away. I could relate to many of the things written in this chapter.
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