Ok...I can't resist from posting this, because I hardly ever (this might be the first) get long thought-provoking e-mails from my dad. Not that he isn't a thinker, but since he doesn't know how to type, his e-mails are usually pointed and brief. Ted sent out an article from 1955 discussing how women need to treat their men. It was pretty humorous, as women were viewed to be completely subordinate to men at that time. There were a few things that I agreed with about our role in making the home restful and inviting, but most were pretty ridiculous, like "let him talk first, his topics of conversation are more important than yours" or "don't complain if he is late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night." Anyway, my dad shocked the entire family with this response. His two typing fingers were busy...and it was well worth it!
"Let's see, I was 10 years old in 1955. What was different back then. Oh yes, I remember, all my friends had dads and moms and they were the same ones they started with, PTA was strong, Cub scouts and bluebonnets were big activities, we didn't have after school clubs and sports so we just went home and Mother was there, all stores were closed on Sunday and we all got dressed up and went to church as a family, we even went on Sunday and Wednesday nights, we never locked our house, we didn't even need a key to start the car just turn the ignition knob, we actually had homework and projects that both Mother and Dad helped with but had to be done by us kids, we lived in a 3 bedroom 1 bath 1 car garage house and didn't know we didn't have what we needed to be happy, my grandmother made some of my clothes with her hands, my dad taught me how to work hard and had me convinced that if I ever called my mother "the old lady" I would not live thru the night, we had a brand new black and white TV and I think it was against the law to use even the mildest curse word on it, family programs were the rule and they always had a mother who didn't work and a dad who came home at night, meals were required family times and almost always at home, we even washed our own dishes.
Well somewhere along the way my generation of men tasted the good life of abundance after WWII and just had to have more. A college education was the norm so we got smarter and forgot how to work, we were not satisfied with what we could earn and needed our wives to work, we didn't mind putting our kids in day-care and let someone else raise them so the family could have 2 new cars with fancy stuff on them and live in large homes or even have a 2nd house somewhere else, when our wives got home at night we expected them to be fresh and ready for us and got mad when they were tired and wanted us to play with the kids, we got involved in lots of out-of-the-house activities and lost control of our schools and our kids, Our dads gave us more freedom that we should have had and we let our moral strength loosen, we discovered that our wives got a little less sexy looking as they got older and forgot to look at ourselves in the mirror, instead we taught the court system how easy it was to grant divorce and how attractive the young secretary looked if you turned out the lights, somewhere in there we stopped opening car doors for our wives or standing up when a women walked in the room, we started wearing hats every where and no longer thought it was important to stand up when the American flag went by, we found out that we could even kill our kids if we didn't want them to be born, we allowed our TV sets to teach our kids to curse and show our little boys how to be men long before they should have even been thinking about it.
Looking back at 1955 really is pretty funny, how could we have ever thought that life way back then was good?
The decline is not totally on the shoulders of us men who gave away our leadership and God given authority. Women rediscovered the power of skin. Remember that when Adam's first saw Eve, he said "wow - wrap her up I'll take her" followed by.... "on second thought - don't wrap her up... I'll take her just like she is". It is no coincidence that women are so attractive, so It's pretty difficult for a young boy to turn the glance away from a string bikini. Satan has never forgotten that the way to get a man to be weak is through the women.
God made us men strong and we must rediscover that. So my word to you three men in my family, teach your boys to not be WIMPS. Stand up for being men. Teach them to open the door for their mothers and to understand what it means to give their seats to a woman. Teach them that THEY are responsible for their family and not their wives. Let them know that if their granddads had just been willing to be satisfied with what God had given them, 1955 wouldn't look so funny anymore. We have lost our ability to blush. Maybe these grandsons can turn it back around."
Thanks for this challenge dad!
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