Raising daughters who glorify God with their lives.

This statement will inevitably provoke all kinds of responses. I know it does in me. This is a great calling. If I had planned to raise my daughter to be a lawyer, my husband always says this is what I should have been (no one can win an argument with me), I think at least the plan would be easy. She would study hard, go to the best schools, follow with the best college, get in with the best practice and wow your daughter is a lawyer. However, this idea of raising a daughter who glorifies Christ is in fact in line with the great tension of the christian faith. I must do all I can to point her to him, but I cannot work in her heart. Only He can. I can guide, and turn and wrestle but only He can succeed for His own glory. I must rest in Him. Whether or not my daughter is a lawyer or not is really not at stake but her humble submission to biblical femininity is. While this guiding goes on it is imperative that I teach biblical femininity and call her to submission to all that God reveals in His word. This post will be continued.