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Thank you for sharing the verses – especially v 24. Appreciate your prayer lists, and prayers. I’ve posted a pic on our private FB page if anyone is on there and would like to see my graduating daughter from last night!

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❤️ just clarifying it’s part of Mercy’s beautiful poem that I shared. :)

God can and will use any vessel who is willing to be consecrated to him. But you know how we were told all of our lives that we as women were “weaker vessels”? What Paul was saying by that is that women were like the silver and gold vessels, the “good china,” to be used for the most special purposes, to be given the most exquisite care. You don’t put your Lenox or your fine Wedgwood in the dishwasher! (Although now they make some without the gold trim so you can, and most brides don’t even want fine china any more. You can hardly find it in department stores. So if you are under 40-50, ITU if you are giving me a deer-in-the-headlights look right now. But trust me, many of Paul’s illustrations have been taught to us in the most misogynistic interpretation possible. We need to learn about the cultural context in which the teachings were originally given. And my point is not to take away from Gwinnith’s—we are all equally valuable in God’s eyes—but to add a reminder that some of us may not have heard.