I'm a woman and I've wrestled with this verse because it seems to tie my salvation to reproduction, which feels limiting and strange. But I've started hearing it differently.
Maybe it's about how God works - through the particular, through childbearing and family and the long work of raising a person. Not just through grand spiritual experiences but through the mundane, embodied reality of life-giving.
I've had three kids and it's been my greatest spiritual teacher - more than any spiritual retreat or theology class. The vulnerability, the sacrifice, the way you have to let go and trust God with another person - that's deeply spiritual work. Not exclusive to me as a woman, but real for those of us who do it.
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