Life Matters - September 3, 2025
In a healthy society men are respected and women are protected. Inasmuch as is humanly possible, by the intervention of providence. Humanly, because even the most profoundly providential happenings commonly require human interactions as long as we survive on this spinning orb. Providential, because even the most valiant men on the face of the earth are helpless when the wrath of God has been aroused and incurred upon them. Even as we are helpless in the face of incapacitating accidents, illnesses, or a myriad of other interruptions and limitations.
Besides calamitous and inborn limitations to the prowess and powers of men to provide protection, there is also the law of love and mercy that God has put in effect, even for those who hate us, with the love and mercy of Jesus Christ at the center. Love, mercy, and protection that is rightly first of all provided for those we are most directly responsible for but then also for those who hate and reject us and our loved ones.
Rejection is one thing, but what if our loved one’s bodies are violated? As able-bodied men we may tend to think that the more forceful and violent we get the more control we may gain over the perpetrator of evil. But a perpetrator is often more prepared and better armed than the protector in such cases. Letting the perpetrator do what he will, however, is not an option for the protector, else he is no longer a protector. Yelling for help may be the only option left open to him and if so, he must yell. And do what he can. Let him also pray. If a woman is caught unawares, alone, I’m told that her most ready weapon is to scream. The louder the better. Let her also pray. God wants us to pray, but also to accompany the prayer with proper and right action. There is no use praying if we then remain unwilling, whether protector or protectee, to risk the way of escape God opens to us.
Every woman, I daresay, has a deep heartfelt need to be admired, desired, and protected. Every man, I testify, has a deep heartfelt need to be admired, desired, and respected. When a man is unfaithful to his wife she loses that sense of protection. She also loses respect. When she no longer respects him, he loses his desire to protect her in equal capacity to his reaction/s against her disrespect. Such a situation runs quickly out of control.
It is a husband’s responsibility to turn his heart back to his wife—to protect her. It is a wife’s responsibility to turn her heart back to her husband—to respect him. To never fail is better, but when repentance is the only good option left, it must be taken. If either one waits on the other in order to respond, to take the way of God, then one must think God’s grace to be inefficient, ineffective, or both. We must never, and need never, wait to do right until another does right. Respect is more than silence, it is softness, even when you disagree. Protection is more than silence, it is Christ-likeness, even when disrespected.
It takes two, one man and one woman, and two right responses, for a proper marriage to properly function. One may rightly respond and keep on doing so, to his or her own spiritual and personal benefit, but a marriage is of two becoming one. In a healthy marriage she feels admired, desired, and protected. He feels admired, desired, and respected. Both admire, desire, and respect our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, our Messiah and King.
‘’A threefold cord is not quickly broken.’’ (Ecclesiastes 4:12) When a man and a woman get married with Jesus Christ being, and remaining, at the center of the union, being the bond holding it all together, it is a powerful bond, a bond that endures the storms of life, both common, uncommon, and tragic. The fact that not all marriages succeed does not move, nor adjust, God’s measure of success.
As debates continue and Left politicians continue to support, many actually push, the idea of an alphabet variety of genders, another (among many) trans person, Robin Westman (formerly Robert Westman) opened fire upon a gathered group of people. This time at a Catholic school during mass, nihilistically killing two children, wounding 17, then killing himself. A heart-breaking tragedy.
The response of the Minneapolis mayor is telling. Regardless of whether we believe, or not believe, in the Catholic system of worship, Westman did refer to them, and specifically targeted them as, Christians. The mayor of Minneapolis had little, if anything, to say about this being a hate crime targeting Christians—another way of saying persecution against Christians—and much to say about “hate speech” making it hard for the “trans community.” The Left has been, and continues, to attempt a cancellation of Christianity, to ignore it except in the negative. An example of “soft” persecution. It is worthy of note that Catholicism does not support transgenderism. The political Left, as you know, does.
In a healthy society, the Word of God, The Holy Bible with its two genders, man and woman, is respected. The failings of some does not in any way, shape, or form, negate the Truth. We do not need to rid the country of all guns. We need a resounding, unwavering, commitment to the Truth. Which includes the Bible and prayer being a vital part of schooling for our children, whether home, private, or public schooled. Let Truth prevail.
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