There’s a moment when you have children when suddenly they are grown. Now they may have been adults for quite a while. They may have kids and jobs and cars. But with all that, they were not quite adults.

It happened this week with my youngest. She borrowed my car for some mechanical work. Arranged the car swap, paid the bill, put my car back in the garage, plugged it back in, put my key on my kitchen table, and later said Thank You.

I felt proud and I felt sad. I realized that like High Queen Susan, who I must say was greatly wronged by C. S. Lewis, she was no longer welcome in Narnia. The time had come to put away childish things, and she had. She’s a woman and a mother. I’m so proud of her but still a little sad at childhood’s end.

© by Daniel DeMarle 7/23/22

While I am deeply saddened about the reported death of an RPD officer, and the wounding of another, it is important to note that a woman was also shot. There will be multiple outcries today about this tragedy, as well there should be. There will be multiple cries to do more to catch the shooter, as well there should be. However, there have already been 44 murders this year. At the end of the day, a person was killed who had a family and loved ones just as there have been 44 other humans killed. The fact that some people get far more attention than others when they are killed, is one of the basic reasons 44 other humans have been killed already this year. We can not value one life more than another no matter what the person’s job. color, gender, socioeconomic status, immigration status, sexual identity, religious belief system, or racial/ethnic background is. We are all human, we all only have one life. If you think life is precious then post just as much about these issues whenever anyone is killed.

©  by Dan DeMarle 7/22/22

OK, the Bible. Those who follow me, know I think we live in a misogynist society and that part of the reason we do is religion. This morning an interesting question hit me, how many women versus me speak in the bible or what percentage of the bible is the voice of women. Turns out it is easy to google.
“According to Facts, women speak a startlingly spare 14,056 words in the Bible, comprising about 1% of the text in its entirety.”

So it is hard to think of women as having power when Sunday after Sunday you only hear the words of men from the bible readings.

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