If that Tahoe avalanche had taken six fathers leaving behind seven now-fatherless children, would your response here be any different? Interested to know, that’s all, as I try to understand this better.
Yes, dear brother. Our response to every last thing should be sex-specific, and here it is a much greater tragedy that the dead are women who are always mothers, and always the last thing we cry out before we die (say on the battlefield or in an accident): “Mom,” “Mother,” or “Momma!” Some or all of these children left behind are little, which makes their grief and loss (and those of their father) even more acute.
Sex matters. From beginning to end. Always. Now it’s up to us to figure out how to replace the fence we ourselves have destroyed, and to do so by asking why and how? In every Bible text. In every news account. In every worship service. And then to teach othes what we learn from our inquiry, working to rebuild the fences for others as we do for ourselves. This is what is is almost unheard of in our churches and their preaching and teaching.
But back to the greater importance of mothers to little children, here’s something to read that is superb. Of course, you know it will be old, from before the fences guarding male and female were torn down. Love,
James-FemalePiety.pdf (171.3 KB)
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The thing to keep your eye on is the “doing what she loved most, with the people she loved most” comment. To everyone in human history, yes even including pagans, that comment is insane.
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Thank you; this does makes things clearer.
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