What Happened When This Woman Put Her Finger in the Ring?

Perhaps you've seen some variation of this video on social media. A woman is given an offer of marriage, but just as she's about to accept, she puts her finger in the ring and is given a glimpse of a life she doesn't really want cooking and cleaning and carrying a baby and caring for her children, heaven forbid.

So she promptly takes the ring off and walks away. But a woman in Texas, a former feminist-turned-Christian housewife, made her own video in response, and the result is beautiful. Here's what she made.

Marriage, Mothering, and the Cost of Feminist Rejection

Is marriage and mothering hard work? Yes. But the joys make the trials so very worth it. In fact, Jesus used this example of a woman in labor and joy over her children to show us that though we struggle now, by faith in Jesus, we have everlasting joy with Him in.

Glory.

Jesus' Promise That Sorrow Will Turn to Joy

In John 16, 20 -22, Jesus told his disciples, Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. When a woman is in labor, she has sorrow because her hour has come.

But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering, because of the joy that a child has been brought into the world. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

The Joy We Have in Christ

Nothing can compare with the joy we have in Christ, here in this life, and in the life to come, when we understand the text.