Authority

[sires6]

I have had some problems in my life with Authority. As a young woman, I struggled mightily with the idea that although I was raised as an independent woman, I must yield to authority. I hated it. I was a rough around the edges woman and wanted all of the authority I could take for myself… so I became a Police Woman. Tyne Daly and Angie Dickenson (you younger women will have to look up these references) I was not (ask me someday and I can tell you stories-most of them true!).

So, what has changed me so that I can willingly submit to authority, even to the point of forswearing pants and wearing a head scarf (Mantilla in the old Church) as a symbol of that Authority to which all women must bow, God and His Symbol in our lives, Men? And submit, although unwillingly, I did. So, why? Because God is gracious and good and He can work at a heart like a water breaks down mountains.

Once, while living in California, Yosemite had a House-sized block of granite fall from the face of one of the rock croppings, killing one or a few and injuring many. House sized. What brought down this multi-ton behemoth? Water. A tiny trickle flows and finds an easier way to go, a tiny crack. It freezes and the ice makes the crack into a finger-sized crack. Finger-sized turns into hand-sized which begins to split from top of the face to the bottom of a fissure, getting longer and deeper with each successive winter. Winter makes the crack larger. Like the rock, the harder we try to be, the more God will work in us, splitting our selfishness from our selflessness, finally breaking that lie away and exposing the new, fresh truth underneath.

Women have the hardest fight of all, because we were first in so many ways. And our power as persuaders and fortresses is unsurpassed. Have you read the story of Jezebel? She perverted a nation, persecuted a people and persuaded a King. Mighty woman using her power for ill, not good. Our submission is not a cowering, a hand behind the head… it is truly Our Will that we submit and that is truly a mighty thing. We choose to bow to Authority and that frightens even the angels; for, is not Satan most afraid of Mary and her submission to Divine Will, though which came redemption Incarnate?

God asks us to submit. It is our choice to do so.

Just a thought I thought I’d share…

 

[FCEGM]

I have had some problems in my life with Authority. As a young woman, I struggled mightily with the idea that although I was raised as an independent woman, I must yield to authority. I hated it. I was a rough around the edges woman and wanted all of the authority I could take for myself… so I became a Police Woman. Tyne Daly and Angie Dickenson (you younger women will have to look up these references) I was not (ask me someday and I can tell you stories-most of them true!).

So, what has changed me so that I can willingly submit to authority, even to the point of forswearing pants and wearing a head scarf (Mantilla in the old Church) as a symbol of that Authority to which all women must bow, God and His Symbol in our lives, Men? And submit, although unwillingly, I did. So, why? Because God is gracious and good and He can work at a heart like a water breaks down mountains.

Once, while living in California, Yosemite had a House-sized block of granite fall from the face of one of the rock croppings, killing one or a few and injuring many. House sized. What brought down this multi-ton behemoth? Water. A tiny trickle flows and finds an easier way to go, a tiny crack. It freezes and the ice makes the crack into a finger-sized crack. Finger-sized turns into hand-sized which begins to split from top of the face to the bottom of a fissure, getting longer and deeper with each successive winter. Winter makes the crack larger. Like the rock, the harder we try to be, the more God will work in us, splitting our selfishness from our selflessness, finally breaking that lie away and exposing the new, fresh truth underneath.

Women have the hardest fight of all, because we were first in so many ways. And our power as persuaders and fortresses is unsurpassed. Have you read the story of Jezebel? She perverted a nation, persecuted a people and persuaded a King. Mighty woman using her power for ill, not good. Our submission is not a cowering, a hand behind the head… it is truly Our Will that we submit and that is truly a mighty thing. We choose to bow to Authority and that frightens even the angels; for, is not Satan most afraid of Mary and her submission to Divine Will, though which came redemption Incarnate?

God asks us to submit. It is our choice to do so.

Just a thought I thought I’d share…

Thank you for doing so, Annie. Yours is a powerful and very pertinent testimony.

 

[StCsDavid]

I have had some problems in my life with Authority. As a young woman, I struggled mightily with the idea that although I was raised as an independent woman, I must yield to authority. I hated it. I was a rough around the edges woman and wanted all of the authority I could take for myself… so I became a Police Woman. Tyne Daly and Angie Dickenson (you younger women will have to look up these references) I was not (ask me someday and I can tell you stories-most of them true!).

So, what has changed me so that I can willingly submit to authority, even to the point of forswearing pants and wearing a head scarf (Mantilla in the old Church) as a symbol of that Authority to which all women must bow, God and His Symbol in our lives, Men? And submit, although unwillingly, I did. So, why? Because God is gracious and good and He can work at a heart like a water breaks down mountains.

Once, while living in California, Yosemite had a House-sized block of granite fall from the face of one of the rock croppings, killing one or a few and injuring many. House sized. What brought down this multi-ton behemoth? Water. A tiny trickle flows and finds an easier way to go, a tiny crack. It freezes and the ice makes the crack into a finger-sized crack. Finger-sized turns into hand-sized which begins to split from top of the face to the bottom of a fissure, getting longer and deeper with each successive winter. Winter makes the crack larger. Like the rock, the harder we try to be, the more God will work in us, splitting our selfishness from our selflessness, finally breaking that lie away and exposing the new, fresh truth underneath.

Women have the hardest fight of all, because we were first in so many ways. And our power as persuaders and fortresses is unsurpassed. Have you read the story of Jezebel? She perverted a nation, persecuted a people and persuaded a King. Mighty woman using her power for ill, not good. Our submission is not a cowering, a hand behind the head… it is truly Our Will that we submit and that is truly a mighty thing. We choose to bow to Authority and that frightens even the angels; for, is not Satan most afraid of Mary and her submission to Divine Will, though which came redemption Incarnate?

God asks us to submit. It is our choice to do so.

Just a thought I thought I’d share…

You might enjoy John Paul II’s description of the genius of woman. He touches upon it some in Theology of the Body and many of his other writings. As you know doubt discovered in your journey, the feminist movement tried to turn women into men versus recognizing that men and women are equal, but not the same yet we are complimentary for each other.

Pax vobiscum

 

[Della]

Our submission is not a cowering, a hand behind the head… it is truly Our Will that we submit and that is truly a mighty thing. We choose to bow to Authority and that frightens even the angels; for, is not Satan most afraid of Mary and her submission to Divine Will, though which came redemption Incarnate?

God asks us to submit. It is our choice to do so.

This put me in mind of a scene from a movie called “Take the Lead” starring Antonio Banderas in which he is teaching inner city kids how to ballroom dance. The girls balk at the guys leading until he tells them that the woman has the real power because she gives the man her permission to lead her.

Authority can only work if permission is given for it to work. It is the same everywhere, no matter who it is who has authority over others be it a mother over her sons or a police officer over a citizen or a mayor over a city. Everyone is over or under someone else. If we don’t understand that and bow to it, chaos ensues, yes?