Praying in Tapestry, Feeling the Earth Move?

I Feel the Earth Move---Tapestry

Thank you Carol King, for the preparation and transparency to prepare us for the reality of our feminine emotions that can and often do, unsettle us and knock us down under their wave. I fell on skates, last week and that was a close parallel to what happens when love or infatuation are at an initial phase. So many of us are completely unaware of the change in our lives.

I love that Carol put it into words. I feel.

All I do is feel, when I am in love. I am in tune with myself and myself is all that there is. We think it is the other person, but it is ourselves seeking satiation from this person. Maybe it is, but time and covenant will tell.

God has made us the weaker vessel and so we are feeling the earth move under our feet. We feel completely out of control with ourselves. Understanding and self control in the Holy Spirit are in order, but even with those constraints upon conscience and heart, we are women first. We live in a fallen world and we are our worst enemy in this matter.

Some have put up walls of divide and stoicism. That may work and maybe those people weren't meant to be married in the first place. Those whose emotions and urges are unconstrained, much harm and difficulty can follow. Somewhere in between is the balance of human desire and the right use of it. Learning to wait and learning to pray.

Carol King taught us about ourselves to pray for ourselves and for our daughters, from the depth of her confessional. Truth and coming clean and teaching others to follow Jesus and then go about what God has for you to do.

God ordained marriage as the right and safe outworking of those urges, for our benefit and enjoyment, in Him. We all stray and wobble. Lord, forgive us. God grant my daughters and grands and neices to see the truth of the confessions of the elders and grow to love Christ's institution of the marriage covenant and live in the light of New Testament gifts to our souls, in Jesus' Name, Amen.