Mundane Womanhood

How did Jesus live, and how are women after His heart called to walk through this life of beauty, of suffering and trial, of loss and abundance, of fruit and of fasting?
I have been meditating on the depths and functionalities of the Lord's Prayer. The way our Lord had instructed us to pray has great implications on the ways and rhythms by which we are called to move through this world, and in our lives. Our heart postures should be, and will flourish if and when we are, continually aligning ourselves with the posture of our Lord Jesus in His earthly model of prayer to the Father.

Scripture says of following Jesus, “whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” — 1 John 2:6 ESV

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” — John 15:13 ESV

The daily tasks of womanhood are often mundane. We wash laundry, clean dishes, fold clothes, cook nourishing meals, clean our homes, work on projects, businesses, and ministries. We tend to little ones that bid our attention and interrupt our days with divine delight. We have conversations with our husbands, families, sisters, friends, with strangers. We learn love through these mundane tasks through which Christ desires to disciple and to shepherd our hearts. 

““Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” — Luke 12:32 ESV

“He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?” — Romans 8:32 ESV

This is His heart. To give us all. Do you see that, in the life He has apportioned to you?

May our souls be content. The world would tempt us to lean into bigger, better, flashier, more indulgent ways of life, and not that abundance or opulence is necessarily bad, but we should take care that our hearts strive not after the things of this life such that our desires become corrupted by fleshly wants that lead to sin and destruction. May we approach all things with the same heart of loving stewardship, knowing that big or small, all belongs to Him. 

It may be good to meditate on Psalm 24, of which the first verse reads, “The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof,

the world and those who dwell therein,”

Maybe, then, we shall first ask the Lord, how we can more beautifully and faithfully steward and tend to what He has entrusted us. 

This starts, I believe, with the 24 hours He has allotted us each day, and our attitudes during our time in the days we are given.

There is something of a pattern within within the Bible, where men scale mountains to find the Lord, yet He comes down to meet women where we are. This may be because women tend to have much to do throughout the day.

This is not to impose a narrative on womanhood or manhood that does not exist; simply to touch on the masculine leadership of men, whereas the design of women lends more to a nurturing, beautifying role — not exclusionary, but intentionally and delicately crafted for interdependence. We beautify and nurture what men provide. 

God meets women where we are. Take Mary and Martha, for instance, preparing for the Lord and sitting at His feet listening to His teaching. Take the woman at the well, or the woman caught in adultery. Even the woman with the issue of blood was met in response by the Lord exactly where she was, and called Daughter as He spoke identity into her in a place where immense brokenness and miraculous healing intersected in His presence.

Elisabeth Elliot said, “The rhythm of life is one of God’s mercies.” 

A practical way of increasing our meditation on the Lord and His words, then, may start with interweaving elements of the Lord’s Prayer into our days. Into our mundane tasks, responsibilities, and inviting the Lord to meet us here. 

“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. Then people who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.” — 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 NLT

May we experience a return to the simplicity of stewarding the life God has given us in faithfulness, as we return to the simple yet profound words of the Lord’s Prayer.

May our eyes be opened to see the ways our gracious Lord and Father already meets us in the small moments of life. In our breath, in the diaper change, in the excitements and mundane moments alike. 

And, above all, may our hearts and minds be girded in preparation, as always, to see our Lord again. 

As we await His return…

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