Thoughts from Tapestry Album! Thank you Carol King for putting some "Joy Inside My Tears"

You make me feel like a natural woman?

"Her desire will be for her husband and he will rule over her?

" The road into motherhood is easy and hard. You see this wonderful specimen with whom your mind and emotions start to plan for a long-term life in unity. We grow into a covenant agreement to belong to eachother and there are children after a while. What's next? "Will you still love me tomorrow?" That is his domination point, isn't it? I have invested life and pain and my body will never return to it's former self and I still must wonder, does he still love me? Will he still love me? Isn't that often the question? Although He, too, is vulnerable, not so much as a woman.

Carol King invested in the passing along of her experiences and lessons learned to us in the Tapestry Album. Somehow, I feel like that should be a class for women, in life to take Tapestry and write their insights from it, before marriage and children and intentions for their lives as a result of having listened to it.

Christ does make a difference and the agreement to live under His authority is a real preservative of heart and mind, for the most part. But we are all humans and fallible and stumble and fall all over one another. Braun, in How Green was the most vulnerable female character, that I think that I have read about in literature. She is invisible in the movie, because her story could not be told in those days. In the book, she is tragic! She,{those kinds of stories} I think, is the reason that the woman's movement was born. The vulnerability of women in a Christian society must be seen and anticipated and defended. She gave life and body to the effort of wifing and mothering. She lost mind and life and perhaps her soul to the effort. That is the ultimate tragedy and that is the goal of Carol King's Tapestry, to prevent.

Does Jesus care, when you are crying over spilled milk? Life that has passed and opportunities untaken? Does Jesus care when family starts to minimize your role and influence, when you had been their closest confidant at one time? Does Jesus care when you are seeing the vulnerability of your condition and aging? I know He cares. I know Jesus cares about those things. He paid it all to save us from these things and we must know that he is truly touched with the feelings of even these infirmities. They are not beyond His gaze.

He wants us to be proactive about life and health. He wants us to be proactive about covenant keeping and self care. He wants us to count the cost of wherever we are in the battle, physical and spiritual. Ultimately, He wants to teach us to care for ourselves and our families.