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Perhaps it is that women believe that God both hears and understands them and values them enough to offer intimate relationship and personal empowering by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
They might also believe Paul (following Jesus) when he talks about how men are to behave: laying down their lives for their wives, as Christ did for the church. This is something that engenders hope where there is frequently despair and oppression.
There are men who want to view Jesus through a power/command paradigm, and so are drawn to religion. There are also some who get the servant nature of God, and are drawn to relationship.
But it is really true that woman "get" relationship more readily than men ... and so resonate with a God who is so devoted to relationship as to embody frail humanity in order to live among us.
Men who value being loved unconditionally while being drawn to Jesus as the example of being fully human are, in my experience, the ones who embrace and encourage the sisters to fully engage in the life that God offers us in Jesus.
Dying to self is not for wimps. Neither is giving birth and raising children. Marriage is the first relationship where God asks us to die to self. Parenting is the next step. God is the perfect model for both relationships -- walking the talk in earth in the body of Jesus.Taking things one moment at a time -- trying to live in kairos time with Papa, knowing that this is the only way I'll survive chronos time with those around me.
Be blessed....
Oh, and while I'm at it, stay tuned for the release of Wiki2. I am excited to finally see it. What I've been hearing sounds awesome.
See Cynthia La Grou's article in the July edition of the