What is real truth? What is reality? The truth is that “in beginning” woman was indeed equal to man. She was just as intelligent. She was just as capable of dealing with life’s hardships. She was man’s partner, not his property or his slave. It wasn’t until she was denied basic human rights that she was demoted from equality and it wasn’t until she was denied an equal education that her intelligence was called into question.

What is truth? The truth is that we have been taught that yellow is actually blue. We have been force fed a lie to point we have hung our heads in original-sin guilt and accepted our plight as second rate citizens – as long as men have granted us at least that much. However, if that is all fight we have left in us, our future will look much like our past.

We are at a significant point in history. For last century, women in America have paved road for us to work outside house, vote, and even have equal legal rights with a man in court system. Don’t take this for granted ladies, these are rights we did not have just a few short decades ago. And just as quickly as these rights emerged after thousands of years of degradation, they can slip back into oblivion with just a few court decisions.

Men have always been ones to govern, but now we have that privilege too. Yes, at this point it is still a privilege we have been granted and can loose if we don’t take advantage of it by being active in governance and voting process.

Our history is veiled and our present is fragile at best. Let’s make our future and our daughter’s future strong. Let’s equip them with a history worth telling and a mentality of true equality by finally standing against that old lie and teaching them real truth.

Second, we must pray for God's guidance in our lives. God has a plan for us. If we pray to live out that plan and approach God with an open heart and a willing spirit, we must believe that we are right where God wants us to be at this moment. God?s plan for us will reveal itself in His time, not ours. To view where we are now as our final destination is short-sighted. To believe that things will never change is to limit God's power and influence in our lives.

Third, we need to enjoy journey. We tend to always look ahead, waiting for something to happen. In process, we miss out in beauty of moment at hand. Life may not be exactly as we had hoped it might be, but where we are has lessons to teach us and memories to be made, if only we stop and pay attention. In "Mommy Madness," Judith Warner instructs us to "throw out schedules, turn off cell phone, cancel tutors. . . . Let's spend some real quality time with our families, just talking, hanging out, not doing anything for a while. And let ourselves be." I think that she has right idea. We need to take a good look around us and be thankful for what we have. Our life may be different from woman sitting next to us, but our task is to make most out of what we have been given. By savoring moment, we may be able to be a great deal more satisfied with who and where we are right now.

Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur has a Master of Arts Degree in Applied Theology, is editor of Spiritual Woman Newsletter (http://www.spiritualwoman.net) and author of "Letters to Mary from a Young Mother" (iUniverse, 2004).

© Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur 2005