"Boys will be boys"

Another hugely powerful post by Ann Voskamp today.

When the prevailing thinking is boys will be boys — girls will be garbage.

Ann writes to her son, who is about to turn 18.

So this is what your dad and I want you to get, to get this and never forget it: that when God decided to pull on skin and make His visitation into the world, He didn’t show up in some backroom of an inner boy’s club or regale us with some black tie inaugural affair.

This is what God chose as best, this is where He first became one of us: God chose to make His entry point into the world through the holy space of a woman, to enfold Himself inside of a woman, to drink of a woman, be held and nourished and cared for by a woman — that’s the jolting truth of how God loves His daughters with His honor.

Next week we celebrate Easter. Whom did Christ reveal Himself to first when He was resurrected?

That when Christ stepped out of that black tomb, he still didn’t choose to first manifest Himself to prestigious officials, religious leaders, the Twelve, but instead He revealed Himself first to the women, He entrusted the veracity of His resurrection to the testimony of the women, He offered the privilege of proclaiming Christ as the risen Savior to the women, though no court at the time would accept their testimony. That’s how God loves His daughters with His regard.

Please read the whole thing, especially the part about the one teen boy who stood up for young women who had been abused by a boy at the church youth group: http://www.aholyexperience.com/

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