On the Other Side of the Garden

Having three of our grandchildren spending the summer with us has certainly brought back memories of raising their dad, aunts and uncle.  How did I ever do it?  God knew what He was doing when He planned that young women have children and older women (grandmas) love them and send them home after the visit.  It is a big responsibility to be a woman, wife, mother, and grandmother.  It always has been. Things aren’t really so different today than they were for our mothers and grandmothers.  Yet the principles found in God’s Word are still applicable in all situations.  Maybe if we had stuck to them in the past we wouldn’t find womanhood so hard, today.

Our pastor’s wife has taught several times from a book that gives us a beautiful picture of biblical womanhood.

On the Other Side of the Garden, by Virginia Fugate, is as applicable today as it was when written in 1992. 

If you have already read this book I encourage you to go back and glean a few more principles to strengthen you as you raise your family.  If you have never read it you will be enlightened as you go through each section.

Section one sets the foundation for any Christian woman in her role as wife and mother.  There is a chapter on submission versus obedience; Satan’s deception that is just as subtle today as it was in the Garden of Eden; and a chapter on how influential a woman is in the home, for good and bad.  The second section deals with the opposition to biblical womanhood that we face.  There are vain philosophies and faulty thinking patterns out there for which many of us have fallen.  The last section relates how to apply what was laid out in the first two.  This is the longest section and answers many of the questions and fears that we have concerning our role in society.  What about the disillusions, disappointments, and misunderstandings; the irritations, frustrations, and aggravations that come to all marriages?  How does one reach a decision as to whether she should work outside the home or not?

This book is not just for the married.  Those who are unmarried can learn much from Mrs. Fugate and be ahead of many of us who have fallen prey to the world’s approach to womanhood.  What a blessing to begin marriage with a biblical perspective.  The future of our families depends upon it. To God be the glory!

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