Raising Daughters

Everyone reading this blog has a vested interest in daughters. Each of you either are a daughter, have one or are married to one. Daughters are quite a predominant blessing in this family for sure.

You always meet interesting people when you travel. One afternoon in France while sitting on a terrace looking out over the Mediterranean Sea, we met a young American couple from California. They were a really neat conservative, Christian couple and we hit it off with them right away. We found out that the young lady was a well known speaker and consultant with a large following on social media. She advises successful women in the workforce on how to date and find the right mate. It turns out that she stumbled into this profession by having the same struggles that these other women are having.

One of the things that she told us was that many driven women don’t know how to be vulnerable and be led by a man. Since men are looking for a woman to lead, this creates an inherent problem. She experienced this in her own life and received some good counsel on how to change her mindset. Once she received this revelation, she began sharing it with friends and it just took off from there. She now is able to help others on a broad scale.

As we were sitting there talking in that incredible sitting, I starting thinking about all of the daughters in our family. You all turned out so well and now there is a whole new generation of daughters you are raising - Annie, Emma and Charlotte. Raising children is a complex task but a thought occurred to me in that moment that summed up my thoughts about raising daughters:

We don’t raise our daughters to conquer the world, we raise them to be conquered by the Word.

This quote might be original but the concept is straight out of the Bible. Daughters whom are conquered by the Word know how to manage careers, school and relationships because they have submitted to the ultimate handbook that tells them how to do so. This approach produces the amazing young women that each of you are. It’s certainly not limiting or passive in any way but produces great freedom in pursing the lives that God intended for you.

This submission to the Word is apparent in each of you and it’s a beautiful to see. It’s the most important thing that you can use to govern your life and pass on to the next generation of daughters. They will be very blessed to have someone showing them the way.

Stay hungry,

Big E

Matt. 5:6