sometimes women are treated like throw pillows, you know, they're nice but

they're not necessary. Oh, yes. They're pretty to have around the church. I mean,

if you have one, if you have one. Yeah. But what God is saying in Genesis 2 is this

cannot be that the man would be alone. And so that means she's necessary.

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the

relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. And I'm Dave Wilson and you can

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today.

So when we started speaking for the Family Life weekend, remember marriage get

aways. I was young. I had only been married 10 years, but I started looking at

the material that we were going to teach. And what I was looking at was Genesis 2.

And I was at the point where it said, and God made a helper suitable for Adam. And

I remember stopping there. Now remember, I wasn't raising the church. And so I

looked at that and I thought, I have to be a helper. Where's my helper? Why don't I

get a helper? And so I was kind of, I remember you came to me and you're like, okay,

you know, you started discussing this. I was only 29. And so then I think I'm just

going to look up the word helper in the dictionary. I'm not looking up Hebrew. I'm

just looking at, let's just see what helper says in the dictionary. And it says a gofer,

a person who does the dirty work. Someone important tells them what to do. And I throw my hands

up in the air. It's like, I can't teach this. Is this my role as a woman? Is this what I'm supposed

to do? And so that was the beginning of my wrestling and my struggling and my yearning to know

what does God have for us as women? Yeah. And obviously, you know, you were looking at

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