I was getting ready for work the other day and I noticed how good I looked in the mirror. No, I’m not being vain…well ok maybe a bit. But when I noticed, I realized that it was only because of my wife. Although this is not a blog about Kristi, her womanhood is an important part of the picture I am about to paint.
Kristi is the best wife that exists. I don’t think they get any better. Sometimes I don’t understand how one human can have such a broad range of emotion, but I’m sure that’s as much for my lack of emotion as it is for her excess.
All of this weight I lost was an attempt that Kristi has made to figure out what foods are bothering my asthma. I quit smoking in January, which led me to realize how poorly I was breathing. It’s bad. She has been spending time finding new recipes, looking for alternative foods, and even working to maintain the same grocery budget through it all.
Why am i telling you a story about my wife?
Good question. I’m telling you because that little glimpse of myself in the mirror made me realize some things about wives.
All of this talk about “empowering women” seems more and more like a joke to me and I’ll explain why. Women have the power, but they see it as weakness.
If it weren’t for wives (women), men would have long been dead. We would have destroyed this planet eons ago over pride or neglect. We were created to create and to build and to work and to dominate. Not to dominate in a negative way, which is par these days, but to subdue the earth. Men were built for that, and I think that’s impressive. What I think is more impressive is that God gave women the power to subdue men…
Take this scene:
You’re at the bar with your girlfriend. A guy you’ve never met walks up to you and starts running his mouth. Your girlfriend could either push you into a fight, or have you out of that bar and laughing with a few words. Women own all of the emotions, so it’s no surprise that they can easily manipulate or subdue ours. While it was instilled in us to tame a world, it was instilled in women to tame us.
Women are the perfect balance to man. They are no less than man and no more. I’ll leave you with this nugget. If you’re a woman, you ARE empowered. If you’re a man who wants to empower women…be a man.