The Virtuous Daughter Magazine Fall 2017 edition Cherish | Page 28

Love is a funny thing, one of those things we can’t control. It
seems like God’s set a few things up in life to help us remember
we’re not self-sufficient and to point us back to Himself as the
only trustworthy Pilot for this life. I suspect that is why dat-
ing and marriage always seemed so mysterious and somewhat
terrifying to me. Perhaps I instinctively knew that I would have
no control and would have to face the truth of my heart and the
test of whether I truly trusted God—and if He’s good. As I get
near to the delivery of my first child, that need inside of me to
let go instead of trying to control what happens to me is getting
more pronounced. And I want to pass on to you ladies what
God has been teaching me, because I’ve found it stands the test
every time.
By Tanisha Gingerich
We are women. It seems even our very bodies were designed to
be relaxed, receive life, and in that same fearless manner bring
forth life and nurture it. We function exactly the same in our
souls and spirits, and it’s incredibly beautiful to God. I think
He’s irresistibly attracted to how He made us (are we not made
in the very likeness of His own bride?) and that our weakness
looks entirely different to Him than it often does to us. Weak-
ness is one of the essential, wonderful factors that makes up
who a woman is, because it enables her to receive from and
mirror her man.
Men we re made like God. They are instinctively attracted to
weakness and vulnerability because it calls to something deep
inside them that longs to cover, nurture, and bring something
to life abundant just like God does. This is, of course, contin-
gent on the idea of finding a good man who desires to give
himself for you rather than use you for himself. Nonetheless
strength and kindness is the original design and intent for
man, because it’s Who God is.
The ability to see yourself for who you truly are and to see men
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