God has given us lots of reasons we can be confident and brave in scary situations, and we can rest in these biblical principles: 1.

In fact, 'do not be afraid' is repeated 365 times in the Bible! That doesn't mean it's wrong to ever feel fear, but it does mean that we should not allow fear to control our decisions. The Bible tells us that we have no reason to fear (Isaiah 41:10 43:5 Luke 12:7). “For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear I will help you.' -Isaiah 41:13 He knows how tender our courage can be and how often we can feel overwhelmed (Psalm 103:14), so when God asks us to be brave, He means to carry us through. Whenever God has asked someone to be brave, it is usually when the situation seems impossible to handle. But God encourages us to be brave in the face of those dangers, temptations, and difficulties because He's right there with us (Isaiah 41:13 Luke 12:7 Revelation 2:10).

Sometimes it takes bravery just to get out of bed and face another day. Living life in this world, we can find a lot of things that cause us fear. If you would like to write an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, please read our guidelines on submissions here.“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” - Winnie The Pooh (A.A. Her fifth book, 'The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men & Marriage: HOW LOVE WORKS,' was published in February. She is an author, Fox News contributor, and trustee of Leading Women for Shared Parenting. Suzanne Venker ( is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog. It requires having the strength and confidence millennials claim women have in spades today.īut I don't see any evidence that they do. There's a much easier way to move through the world as a woman, and it doesn't require altering the dictionary. Women who want to turn the world upside down to accommodate their grievances (namely, millennials) are fighting a losing battle. This woman understands that there are a time and a place to be masculine and a time and a place to be feminine. A woman who retains her femininity while also being a force with which to be reckoned in the world outside her doorstep truly has it all. The gender war being waged today is missing this critical fact.

More importantly - and hold on because this will come as a shock to many - a woman can be both strong, brave, and powerful, and feminine. That women today have more masculine qualities doesn't (indeed, cannot) change the word feminine itself. Feminine means what it means, just as masculine means what it means. I couldn't agree more that women are strong, brave and powerful but that doesn't mean the word feminine can transform itself to mean those things. This generation honestly believes they can alter the meanings of words to fit what they want the words to mean, rather than accept what they do mean. It is so comical to watch millennials struggle with words the way they do. 'I agree that these entries are imbalanced, and the definition for the word 'feminine' is high on our list to review.' Apparently, the lexicographer for, agrees. After all, she says, today’s women are strong, brave and powerful, and the dictionary definition should reflect that. She's upset that the synonyms for this word - words such as ladylike, soft, and tender - are insulting. They're also negative in nature.īut the number of synonyms for the word feminine isn’t what Day is upset about. Although some of the synonyms listed for masculine - such as ape, beefcake, and hairy - are hardly sound. I thought of all this when I heard that a woman named Kaya Day is challenging 's definition of the word 'feminine.' There are 27 more synonyms for the word masculine than there are for the word feminine at, which I suspect is because there happen to be more words to define masculinity than there are words to define femininity. That is the narrative our gender-obsessed culture sells, but it's wrong. It does not mean batting one's eyelashes and pretending you have no thoughts or opinions of your own. Here's what being feminine does not mean: being docile or weak. I answered that question in a follow-up book, The Alpha Female's Guide to Men & Marriage, which has been described as 'a practical secular guide to a satisfying marriage in a world where women are trained to behave like men.' That article went viral, and my naysayers' refrain went something like this: What does that even mean - for a woman to 'surrender to her femininity?' All they have to do is surrender to their nature - their femininity - and let men surrender to theirs.' In 2012 I wrote an article about what has happened to the relationship between women and men that ended with this sentence: 'Women have the power to turn everything around.

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