When you've been a bad girl and kept on going rather than returning to the fold....
When you've done things no one else in your family has ever done or thought of doing--or approves of--and kept on going....
When you've broken all the rules you were taught about, and when everyone else you know thinks you are nuts...and kept on going.
You eventually wind up knowing that it's all been good, even if loathsome.
You realize you've learned something from every person, every experience....
And you realize who has been in charge, and who has been directing you, and what it means
in the Bible when it says, "The thoughts of men are not the thoughts of god"....
You realize that
It's not all about you.
It's about the human race.
Here's to bad girls!
ReplyDeleteIndeed....Eve was the first.
ReplyDeleteI've always hugged the shore, but I do admire more adventurous spirits like you!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hattie and Linda: When I moved from Iowa, the folks I worked with (who were all upstanding, salt-of-the-earth types like you) gave me a cup, which I still have. It says, "Have the courage to be a little crazy." They loved that part of me. That's not exactly the image I wanted to leave behind, but it's me, all right.
ReplyDeleteWhen you are who you are you are crazy unique and your own woman :-))
ReplyDeletethat's all of us, don'tcha think, Linda?
ReplyDeleteOh, yes! Though it can be an uphill battle sometimes.
ReplyDeleteIt IS an uphill battle. wouldn't be worth it if it wasn't.
ReplyDeleteLilith was the first!
ReplyDeleteHmmm....The insuburdinate....They left her out of the Baltimore Catechism.
ReplyDeleteIn Jewish folklore, from the 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira onwards, Lilith becomes Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs. The legend was greatly developed during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism. In the 13th Century writings of Rabbi Isaac ben Jacob ha-Cohen, for example, Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael. The resulting Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern Western culture, literature, occultism, fantasy, and horror. (Quoting Wikipedia on Lilith)
ReplyDeletewell, pardon me....that's all fine, but the article i read suggested that adam & lilith split up because she would not have sex with him in the missionary position. Not that they had missionaries or anything back then, but there it is. I also read somewhere that Adam had 7 wives. so i guess nothing much has changed. it's still a guy's world. there must have been a few daughters born in all that coupling, also, but have we ever heard of THEM?? nope. and no.
ReplyDeleteXE--Obviously, some of those daughters became wives 3 through 7!
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CC: Dontcha love history? I have an easier time with the rib story than I do with how the whole human race came from one woman who seemed to have given birth only to boys. Oy.
DeleteThink how much easier our lives would be if humans reproduced by mitosis - producing only WOMEN!
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P.S. You won't tell my Hunky Husband that I wrote that, will you? *giggling*
CC: Tell him yourself! haha. my keys are sealed....
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