What Happened When This Woman Put Her Finger in the Ring?
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- 00:03
- 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!
- 00:20
- 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.
- 00:31
- Here's what she made. Is marriage and mothering hard work?
- 01:06
- 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.
- 01:21
- In John 16, 20 -22, Jesus told His disciples, 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.