I haven’t had time for writing my reflections upon the “Sight and Sound” experience, but Mara left this insightful comment on another thread :
“They” don’t get that Sarah was a strong woman. And Abraham LIKED that. That they were a team living in a patriarchal culture. That they watched out for one another. In that culture, Abraham could have had Sarah done away with, or put her away because she bore him no heir and hardly anyone would have blinked an eye. But he never did. He LOVED her in the truest sense. And she loved him back. That’s why she let him call her sister in two instances and handed over her maid so he could have an heir.
And, IMPO, one of the reasons God may have picked Abraham (besides being the ‘heir’ or eldest son of the eldest some back to Adam’) was because of this love and loyalty and faithfulness, from Abraham to Sarah, and from Sarah back to Abraham. It took a few years of waiting, on God’s part, for this couple to come up. Sarah was no shrew. She was strong. Sorry more people don’t GET that. Neither God nor Abraham are/were afraid of strong women. They LIKE them. They WANT them as friends and companions.
God still does. That’s why He’s working on us to grow us up as strong women, to fellowship with Him, to boldly enter the holy place – His presence. He just had to wait for us to stop listening to the lies of those who are afraid of strong women, those who are insecure and need to grow up themselves. Those liars need to stop preventing people from entering into the fullness of God and realize they need to enter themselves because of their own deep and severe lack.
Glad you had a good time.
Maybe you could write your own version of Sarah’s story.(I also think “they” are harsh with Job’s wife. Sure she said something she shouldn’t have. But she knew Job. She lived with him. She wasn’t like his friends who could question his righteousness. She knew Job’s goodness. To her, it looked like the God of the universe turned on her husband, just as any second rate god among the pagans. In her eyes, not knowing of the devil, a God she believed to be righteous wasn’t anymore. And who can fight against a god? Might as well put an end to it. But Job knew there had to be more to the story, and that’s how we got the Book of Job. When God told Job to make sacrifices for his friends, his wife wasn’t mentioned among them. Possibly because she went through the fire with Job and understood with Job. NOT because she’s a woman and not worth the trouble.)
