Big thoughts.

I heard a quote this week that impressed me greatly – it too has spun through my head this morning in a different but similar fashion. The quote was from a turn-of-the-century pastor I believe. He was discussing the dangers of our crumbling moral standards. I am not even going to try to quote it word for word but just relay the Andrea-paraphrase. He said that women who play at love-making (actresses and such is where he started) put their emotion and heart into the affair, making it believable to everyone including themselves. However in the process that intimacy loses its sacredness. The full meaning and feeling of the relationship God design is so diminished they lose who they are as women also. He compared them to a grape vine that hangs over a public walkway. The woman who once was a vibrant, full, and rich cluster of grapes becomes devoid of all that God made women to be because everyone who passes by takes freely leaving her stripped and barren. Isn’t that a powerful picture??? I have pondered at the significant number of women in our culture that seem so hard. As a sex we have lost a lot of the gentle characteristics that have marked us – the deep reservoir of feeling women are renown for seems so often completely gone or entirely unreachable.