Fragile vessels

Our skeleton is made of 206 bones. Some of them are supportive, but others are protective. Among the protective bones we have the ribs and it is no coincidence that women have been formed from one of them.

Women are protectors by nature and that protection is rarely directed towards ourselves, we protect the nest. Sometimes this protection becomes an obsession, anything that does not fulfill this purpose is no longer important to us, including our physical appearance and our body, temple of the spirit.

We are not talking about vainly dedicating ourselves to always being perfectly beautiful, we are talking about giving back to our husbands a pleasant image of the woman with whom they have united their lives, in a way that is covetable for them, let us remember that no matter how much our spirit is fed, even the flesh tries to win.

For a woman to be beautiful, it is not necessary that she be a magazine model, far from it; I know women who, despite not being pretty, know how to take care of their appearance, neat and decently dressed, they are a greed for her husband. The arrangement of our hair, hands, feet and our home are essential for a man to be permanently attracted to his wife and his sight on her should remind him of the person with whom he fell in love, no matter how many years have passed. I know beautiful old women because they have decided to keep their husbands in love until the end of their days. A woman abandoned in her physical appearance is like an abandoned and desolate temple. There is no mystery in it, nothing to discover, nothing desirable. God does not want us that way.

If we read the book Song of Songs, we will discover that the external aspect is constantly described and not much emphasis is placed on the virtues of the person, because external vision is essential for two people to like and attract each other.

Imagine that you are going to acquire a jewel, you do not look first at what it weighs, you see if the design you like, even there may be a higher quality one, but the design is not to your liking, surely you will buy the one that is pleasant in their eyes. What can a man feel when he sees his wife disheveled, with untidy nails, cracked and calloused feet, without shaving his legs and when his hands caress him it feels as if sandpaper is rubbing his body?

Our husbands also play a fundamental role in this, there are men who never stop to admire their wife and recognize her virtues. My father always said: "A woman is only beautiful when she is loved" and this has a lot of truth. When a woman feels ignored, she declines in all aspects of life. Abuse and indifference are capable of destroying a woman's self-esteem and abuse does not always have to be physical, it can also be psychological and so subtle that many can live a life in this way without realizing that their constant depressions do not come out of the nothing.

Have you ever read what God says to our husbands about us? Look at 1 Peter 3.7 and you will see that we are fragile vessels, we must be treated with care and we are joint heirs. He who is coherent is on the same level as the other, that is, we are daughters of a King and heirs of all that He possesses. We are princesses and as such we must conduct ourselves in everything. We must not let someone undermine our self-esteem. God is the one who gives us value, we are precious stones for Him (Proverbs 31:10) and as such we must be protected and cared for.

I recommend dear women to learn that for God we have an inestimable value, if we had not been created, man would still be a lonely entity that would live only with animals, He could not procreate, because the giver of life chose us for this and not there is a higher purpose than bringing lives into the world and leading them on the path of God.

We are blessed with all blessings from on high if, before listening to others, we hear the voice of God telling us how much he loves and values us.

Men, I exhort you to fulfill the role that God assigned you, to take care of us (Ephesians 5.29), especially of our spirit that is fragile, because we are the ideal help that God provided (Genesis 2: 18-20), but above all, we are humanly delicate and sensitive.

Love us as God loves us, so that we are always flowers that can provide the perfume that delights you.