Today, I am honored to be guest posting for Rachel Held Evans. I am sharing my thoughts on faith and step-parenting.
Redeeming Cinderella’s Stepmother
Summer by Mark Askins
No little girl ever wants to be Cinderella’s stepmother. We dream of princes and balls and weddings and babies, but all of those things would belong to us first. We would mother our own biological children, not someone else’s. No one wants to be a stepmother.
The Bible doesn’t offer us a shining example of a stepmother. We could posit that Sarah was the stepmother of Hagar’s son Ishmael; however, she forced both Hagar and Ishmael to leave after the birth of her son, Isaac. Not the best pattern to follow. Literature isn’t kind to us either. We give away poison apples, prey upon feeble-minded men, and force servitude upon the stepchildren. Even the Greek playwright, Euripides said that “it is better to be a serpent than a stepmother.”
I am stepmother, not a stereotype.
To read the rest of this post, please head over to Rachel Held Evan’s blog. I’m part of her series Faith in Parenting.
