Celebrating Submission

...  in wives, girlfriends, and significant others. Here's some stuff I found surfing the web and wanted to share with my sister-subs. 

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

- Thomas Wolfe

"Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say they don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness." 

- Maya Banks, Sweet Surrender

"For me, submission is one of those things that is far more easily identified by its absence rather than its presence. I know that I am struggling with it when I am critical, impatient, defiant, and “snarky” toward my husband—when I refuse to cooperate and am unresponsive to input, when I rush in and take control, when I fail to “provide space” to allow my husband the opportunity to be a man and provide godly oversight for our family. In other words, it’s not readily apparent to me when I’m submitting, but it’s painfully obvious to me when I am not. I sense that I am disrespecting/ disregarding my husband, taking control, and pulling against him rather than for and with him."

- Mary Kassian, Girls Gone Wise

And finally, have any of you seen this story floating about the internet?

An English professor wrote on the board: 

A woman without her man is nothing.

The class was then asked to punctuate the sentence.

The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing." 

The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

So apparently it's to show the purpose of punctuation and how important it is.

But as I read and re-read this little example, I began to see less and less how they represented opposing viewpoints. For they both seemed to be, instead of opposing thoughts, extremely complementary statements. 

For you see, if you were a woman coupled with a man, then without him, you would be nothing. And that same man, without his woman, would also be nothing. 

And with that thought, I bid you a happy weekend!