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God gives grace for the truth, not for myths<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That thought has prompted me to take a good, hard look at myself.<\/p>\n

Did you know that the gender gap in wages (21 cents) is not <\/em>really a gender gap? It’s a gap between mothers and everyone else (Moreton<\/a> 114).<\/p>\n

Think about that for a second. Working mothers<\/em>, not women, are paid the worst in the country.<\/p>\n

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Something happens when you become a mom. You vacillate between a soft body of squishiness holding a paper plate of Ants-on-a-Log and a powerful life-giver. You are the Every Snuggler and Every Protector. Chief Bottom-Wiper and She-Bear.<\/p>\n

In your body<\/em>, you are wholly both. You make milk. You speak out. You cook dumplins. You raise hell. You buy bandaids. You scratch predators. You read Suess. You pray for protection.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Gavin was born, we were having one of those <\/em>days. I hadn’t showered. The kids weren’t dressed. The house was a wreck. And the front door was open probably to welcome home the Love of my Life. As I was walking past the open storm door, who should walk up but some local politician glad-handing the working class neighborhood? His tie was loosened so he looked rugged and hard-working, but he was as neat as a pin otherwise. Not even a sweat stain. And he walked up my sidewalk to woo me <\/em>— the worst paid, but his most-coveted voter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I glared through the glass door. I think I might have actually growled. And shook my head as if to say, “Don’t you dare knock on my door.” And he actually raised both hands in surrender and backed his way down my sidewalk.<\/p>\n

Heehee. “I’m so powerful.” I thought. “Scared him.”<\/p>\n

I had that feeling, too, when some loser stole my parking place right in front of me at the local supermarket. He knew he had done it because he watched me get out of my car several spaces away — me in my 7-month-pregnant state. I saw the color drain from his face when he saw me. I saw him cower. And I saw him run scared from me too.<\/p>\n

People don’t want to talk about that power. It makes ’em sweat. And I’m actually wondering if that’s why we’re paid so badly. Because if we’re paid anywhere near the power we wield, we’d take over.<\/p>\n

A certain expression of Christianity loves to talk about the squishy side of motherhood. If you heard Bob Jones, Sr. talk, his mom’s powder biscuits and gravy were the bread and wine of Reconstruction Alabama. And any one of the recent and profitable evangelical books “for women” are quick to place the articulation of women’s power in the “ungodly” column — the domain of those ugly “libbers.”<\/p>\n

That’s a lie, you know. Or a myth. There’s no grace for lies. The truth is God made us to be wholly both. The God-fearing woman births humanity<\/a>. She also\u00a0judges a country<\/a>. She dolls herself up to woo a pagan king<\/a>. She is the first to tell the Good News<\/a>. She warms milk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And she nails the enemy’s temple to the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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