On Gratitude and Stress, Whether Women Get to Grow Up or Not, and one HOT Husband

First, my best friend is doing a study (related to her degree) on using gratitude to combat stressors in parenting.  She needs participants and I thought some readers here might be interested.  Check out the details on Holy Experience blog.  It’s fun and it’s free. 

 Secondly, I recently put up a post at Complegalitarian about the lack of a marital roles “law” in the 10 Commandments and would like to invite you to add your thoughts and musings.  A portion of the post:  

…the obedience of a child is a temporary thing in order for the child to grow into a competant capable adult. Interestingly, this is also how authority in church leadership is defined by Paul, as a temporary thing in order to get those “younger” to a place of equal or greater maturity than that of the leader (see Ephesians 4:11-13).

As is the case with children, are women literally in need of a masculine authority to obey in order to be safe, in order for them to walk in wisdom (whether in the home or in the church)?

If so, when does the woman get to grow into maturity? And why does both the authority of the parent and the church leader act as a tool to aid the “younger” to grow to a place of maturity (and thus the authorities “job” is to work him/herself out of a job, as it were), but the authority of the husband (in the complementarian framework) remain something the woman must always be subject to?

In other words, why does female subjection not seem to make good common sense (to me, anyways) when so many of the other commands do?     [Click here for full post]. 

And thirdly, since we’re on the topic of husbands, I have to post a picture that I took yesterday. 

Isn’t that one fine speciman of a man?  Yum.  Ignore the pursed lips of annoyance (he was probably getting ready to groan at my verbal admiration of those delicious thighs).  I swear, if I were a cannibal, he’d be the first one I’d pick for the crock pot.