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Let Me Be a Woman
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“In order to learn what it means to be a woman, we must start with the One who made her.” Working from Scripture, well-known speaker and author Elisabeth Elliot shares her observations and experiences in a number of essays on what it means to be a Christian woman, whether single, married, or widowed.
1. The God who is in charge --
2. Not who am I? but whose am I? --
3. Where to hang your soul --
4. A daughter, not a Son --
5. Creation, woman for man --
6. Jellyfish and pride --
7. The right kind of pride --
8. The weight of wings --
9. Single life, a gift --
10. One day at a time --
11. Trust for separation --
12. Self discipline and order --
13. Whose battle? --
14. Freedom through discipline --
15. God sets no traps --
16. A paradoxical principle --
17. Masculine and feminine --
18. The soul is feminine --
19. Is submission stifling? --
20. Twenty questions --
21. A choice is a limitation --
22. Commitment, gratitude, dependence --
23. You marry a sinner --
24. You marry a man --
25. You marry a husband --
26. You marry a person --
27. Forsaking all others --
28. Dynamic, not static --
29. A union --
30. A mirror --
31. A vocation --
32. What makes a marriage work --
33. Acceptance of divine order --
34. Equality is not a Christian ideal --
35. Heirs of grace --
36. Proportional equality --
37. The humility of ceremony --
38. Authority --
39. Subordination --
40. The restraint of power --
41. Strength by constraint --
42. Masters of ourselves --
43. A universe of harmony --
44. Be a real woman --
45. The courage of the creator --
46. The inner sanctum --
47. Loyalty --
48. Love is action --
49. Love means a cross
1. The God who is in charge --
2. Not who am I? but whose am I? --
3. Where to hang your soul --
4. A daughter, not a Son --
5. Creation, woman for man --
6. Jellyfish and pride --
7. The right kind of pride --
8. The weight of wings --
9. Single life, a gift --
10. One day at a time --
11. Trust for separation --
12. Self discipline and order --
13. Whose battle? --
14. Freedom through discipline --
15. God sets no traps --
16. A paradoxical principle --
17. Masculine and feminine --
18. The soul is feminine --
19. Is submission stifling? --
20. Twenty questions --
21. A choice is a limitation --
22. Commitment, gratitude, dependence --
23. You marry a sinner --
24. You marry a man --
25. You marry a husband --
26. You marry a person --
27. Forsaking all others --
28. Dynamic, not static --
29. A union --
30. A mirror --
31. A vocation --
32. What makes a marriage work --
33. Acceptance of divine order --
34. Equality is not a Christian ideal --
35. Heirs of grace --
36. Proportional equality --
37. The humility of ceremony --
38. Authority --
39. Subordination --
40. The restraint of power --
41. Strength by constraint --
42. Masters of ourselves --
43. A universe of harmony --
44. Be a real woman --
45. The courage of the creator --
46. The inner sanctum --
47. Loyalty --
48. Love is action --
49. Love means a cross
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“I can see why so many women dislike this book and dislike Elliot. It's hard to like a book written by a woman that is pointing out the things that you're doing that are wrong. It's hard to be face to face with the truth that you've been taught wrong and that you need to make a change.
Throughout this entire book she pushes back on what the world has told women they should be (if the world can even define a woman). She goes through the importance of being a WOMAN and of following the calling that God has for you. Sometimes your calling is to be single (which she addresses) and sometimes it is marriage (which is a larger focus of the book since these were letters to her daughter prior to her daughter's marriage).
She touches on submission, BIBLICAL submission and not the submission the world is telling you is evil and holding you back. She also talks a lot about the importance of a man being a man, and why God created him in that way.
Honestly, she touches on a little bit of everything from the blessing that is our God given sex, single-ness, dating and marriage, equality in marriage, submission in marriage, and being who God created you to be. It's quick, it's no nonsense, and it's what more women should be reading no matter their season of life.
It's definitely something women should be reading today. Maybe you don't agree with every single word she says. Maybe you someone find yourself the exception to what she is saying. Maybe you find something else in her life that you don't agree with so therefore you struggle to listen to anything she says (I know a few people personally who fall in to this camp). Take a step back, read it, go back to the Bible, and look at how these things are playing out today in front of us. Apply some, or all, of this book to your lives and see if things change for the better.”
“I love Elisabeth Elliot and her writing. Any of her others books I have read, I have often left with a 5 star review and am encouraged heart and spirit, but I could not do that with this book. It was very good and full of biblical wisdom, and I absolutely adored that it was writings she wanted to give to her daughter before she was married (what a gift!); however, there were a few ideas that I did not agree with and felt as though I could not fully endorse this book as a 5 star read.”
“"Let every one of you who is a husband, love his wife as he loves himself. And let the wife reverence her husband"
5 Stars, every woman should read this!!”
“This was nothing new for me. I've been surrounded with these lessons and ideas my whole life, so perhaps that is why I didn't appreciate it as much as I could have. The best parts were about "marrying a sinner" and "marrying a man".”
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