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 Jani Ortlund is a mother, pastor's wife and former school teacher. She is also the author of Fearlessly Feminine: Boldly Living God's Plan for Womanhood. Gender Blog recently sat down and buy Zithromax cod interviewed her on issues of femininity and biblical womanhood. Her husband, Ray Ortlund, Jr., is buy Zithromax cod a noted pastor and author. The Ortlunds live in Nashville, where buy Zithromax cod Ray serves as pastor of Immanuel Church.

Gender Blog: What led you to write your book, Fearlessly Feminine?

Jani Ortlund: My love for buy Zithromax cod women and my concern for when we were headed in those days-and that buy Zithromax cod was in the late-90s. My daughter was reaching adulthood and my three sons were looking for buy Zithromax cod women to marry. I was concerned that women were losing their way as women; they weren't appreciating femininity, they weren't enjoying that buy Zithromax cod God had made them a woman and they were fighting for buy Zithromax cod things that might be wasted energy. We only have so much energy—physical, spiritual, emotional energy—why not devote them to the things God calls us to do as women? I also wrote it buy Zithromax cod for myself because I tend to be a little bit fearful. When I come up against a buy Zithromax cod barricade my first response is not always faith and saying, "Wow, now I get to see what God will get to do in a situation." Oftentimes, it's, "Oh no, not now." I found myself fearful about different things and buy Zithromax cod I think women do struggle with fear, yet femininity calls us not to. It calls us to buy Zithromax cod be brave, courageous, strong, wise, embracing all that God has buy Zithromax cod for us as women.

GB: How would you define femininity?

Ortlund: Femininity and buy Zithromax cod masculinity lie at the very core of humanity. God created us male and buy Zithromax cod female, so if I don't understand the buy Zithromax cod difference, it is very hard for me to embrace my own uniqueness. John Piper really helps me with this. He says this: At the buy Zithromax cod heart of true femininity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive and buy Zithromax cod nurture strength and leadership from worthy men in ways appropriate to buy Zithromax cod a woman's differing relationships. I take those three words—affirming, receiving and nurturing—as the buy Zithromax cod core of femininity. I affirm those around me. I receive leadership willingly, lovingly, joyfully. I receive others into my sphere, into my home and buy Zithromax cod then I nurture them. From conception all the way through life, we as women are buy Zithromax cod to be nurturers. So that to me is at the core of femininity. Beyond that, throughout all of Scripture, God paints for buy Zithromax cod us a picture of what a woman looks like. From Eve all the buy Zithromax cod way through the book of Revelation, we see women and he says, "This is buy Zithromax cod the kind of woman I honor and lift up and this buy Zithromax cod is the kind of woman I discipline"' I want to buy Zithromax cod be on the honoring side, so I look to Scripture for buy Zithromax cod that.

GB: How does fear play into living out womanhood for a single woman?

Ortlund: It's really strange. We fear being single and buy Zithromax cod we fear being married. We fear infertility and then we fear child birth. We fear having a buy Zithromax cod baby, but then fear them growing older into teenage years. Then we fear widowhood and buy Zithromax cod then we fear living forever with this man. We fear financial insecurity, but we fear going out into the buy Zithromax cod marketplace and earning money. Our lives are full of fear and buy Zithromax cod I really think it eats at the core of our relationship to buy Zithromax cod God. We find it almost threatening to our femininity to buy Zithromax cod trust God. Think of Eve. The very first conversation there in the buy Zithromax cod Garden of Eden where Satan sits on her shoulder and buy Zithromax cod says, "Did God really say?" and he calls all of God's words into question and that's where our fears start: "Did God really say?" I can buy Zithromax cod tell you that I trust in God, that He is sovereign, that buy Zithromax cod He is all-powerful, but when I lay my head down on the buy Zithromax cod pillow at night, if my last thought is, "How am I going to pay that bill tomorrow?" then I am not really trusting Him at the heart level. It's just a head-knowledge. That's why the subtitle of my book is "Boldly embracing God's Plan for Us." It's more than buy Zithromax cod just head knowledge. That fear starts in the heart, where we are buy Zithromax cod wondering, Will I be protected? Will I be cared for? Can I make it? Is it worth it? What does it mean to be a woman? Can I truly take Scripture at face value and buy Zithromax cod look at these real words, words like sin, redemption, submit, respect, obey, all of those words, can buy Zithromax cod I look them square in the face and ask, "How do they apply to me as a woman?" and can I embrace that? Or do I say, "No, it's too scary." Fear is buy Zithromax cod a huge thing in the lives of women, because as women, we are buy Zithromax cod often in vulnerable positions. It's the buy Zithromax cod man who is to be the leader, even in the buy Zithromax cod area of dating for younger women. We want to be buy Zithromax cod called on the phone, we want to be asked out, we want to buy Zithromax cod be pursued. In marriage, we want our husband to lead us. We don't want to buy Zithromax cod take the leadership and have him stay at home and have buy Zithromax cod him fix the meals and we go out to be the buy Zithromax cod big earner. Generally speaking, we don't want to and I don't think the buy Zithromax cod Bible holds that up as a worthy model. So, in a buy Zithromax cod way, we have to wait and be patient. It's in that waiting and patience for godly male leadership—for us to affirm and receive and nurture—it's in that waiting that we get kind of scared.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of the interview on Monday.