 I have been thinking for a while about starting a new blog meme. In case you don't know what that is, a blog meme is when several bloggers all post on a similar topic and place links to their posts on the blog that is hosting the meme. I thought it would be neat to start a meme under the topic of Biblical womanhood and femininity. I have decided to call it "Daughters of Sarah" from I Peter 3:6: "Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement." Update 10/1/09: I have decided to continue this meme with some revisions. The focus of this meme will now be on stories about Godly women of the past and present, the real "Daughters of Sarah" who have trusted in God and thereby changed the course of history. For the time being, I will post this meme once a month instead of once a week, but if I can get enough participants, I may start bringing in some guest posts in order to make this a weekly meme again. So if there is a story or mini-bio you would like to share about a Godly Christian woman (it doesn't have to be someone famous, it can just be someone you know who has blessed your life), please use the Mr. Linky on the most recent "Daughters of Sarah" post to share it! Click here to find the latest Daughters of Sarah post. There are just three requirements for participation in this meme: 1. All posts must contain the graphic which must be linked to this post (you can get the linking code below).
2. All posts must be Christian in nature and be about a Christian lady.
3. All posts must be in agreement with the description of Biblical womanhood as found in I Peter 3:1-6. Much thanks to A Pondering Heart for this graphic! That's it! If you have any questions, need help with the linking code or the Mister Linky widget or anything else, just leave a comment or send me a message! 
Womanhood: What God Says About It For my first Daughters of Sarah post, I decided to talk about the foundation of womanhood; the fact that women were created by God different from but complementary to men. I am a woman. That means by definition, I am not a man. It sounds simplistic, yet it is a fact that is often blatantly ignored in today's culture. As a Christian, I am called to be a certain kind of woman. Elisabeth Elliot writes in her excellent book Let Me Be a Woman : "We are called to be women. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman. For I have accepted God's idea of me, and my whole life is an offering back to Him of all that I am and all that He wants me to be." God has a particular idea of what a woman should be. We find part of God's idea of womanhood described in I Peter 3:1-6: Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word,
they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning
of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold,
or of putting on of apparel;
But let it be the hidden man of the heart,
in that which is not corruptible,
even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
which is in the sight of God of great price.
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also,
who trusted in God, adorned themselves,
being in subjection unto their own husbands:
Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord;
whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well,
and are not afraid with any amazement. As Christian women, we have the privilege of claiming these verses for our own. God leaves no woman out of His plan. He has a woman's life planned for us, not a man's life. When we try to reinvent womanhood, we turn God's beautiful, perfect plan into something perverted and ugly. For a very clear and insightful description of the differences between manhood and womanhood I now turn to Hannah More, a Christian woman and author who lived in the 1700's. "She (Hannah More) hopes they will not be offended if she has occasionally pointed out certain qualities, and suggested certain tempers, and dispositions, as peculiarly feminine, and hazarded some observations which naturally arose from the subject, on the different characters which mark the sexes. And here again she takes the liberty to repeat that these distinctions cannot be too nicely maintained; for besides those important qualities common to both, each sex has its respective, appropriated qualifications, which would cease to be meritorious, the instant they ceased to be appropriated. Nature, propriety, and custom have prescribed certain bounds to each; bounds which the prudent and the candid will never attempt to break down; and indeed it would be highly impolitic to annihilate distinctions from which each acquires excellence, and to attempt innovations, by which both would be losers." (Essays Principally Designed for Young Ladies by Hannah More) Godly womanhood is not old-fashioned. It is a calling for every Christian woman in every generation. Let's honor God's plan for womanhood and return it to its vital role in the Body of Christ. Just click on the Mister Linky below to add your link. This is for Daughters of Sarah posts only. Be sure the read the other Daughters of Sarah posts listed below! 
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