For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death, man's hatred, God's desertion, and Satan's power ; we find Him there at the cost of everything. Everything that was against us was done away. By one man's obedience many are made righteous.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
