(Tim) This from a godly mother repenting of the sins of her feminist youth. As I see it, she was so much older then, she's younger than that now. Anyhow, she reports this conversation between her children as she read to them:
"After hearing the Grimm's tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" (about a discontented wife and an emasculated husband) my four-year-old daughter said, "She does NOT have a gentle and quiet spirit, does she? I don't think she loves Jesus at all." Then my eight-year-old son replied, "but it's really his sin too, because he isn't telling her NO to all the silly things she wants!"
I LOVE that one; at least in the original low German, it ends with the wife asking to be like the living God--and God puts her back in the miserable hovel, similar to the one our Lord was born into. I've seen at least one English translation that completely misses this turn.
The story also captures beautifully the reality that we can pollute the area around us with our sin--as the desires of the fisherman's wife grow ever larger, the sea grows darker, murkier, poisonous.
Posted by: Bike Bubba | Friday, 04 December 2009 at 02:27 PM
My guess is this is from Barbara? Just a hunch.
Posted by: Leslie Taylor | Friday, 04 December 2009 at 10:34 PM