Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com, and you're listening to the

Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode five. Today Rachel and I are going to be talking about well the

suffering wife idea and whether or not well the question we're going to really be discussing is is

marriage designed by God to be a crucible of suffering for women we've heard the idea that God design, you know, God's purpose for us

is not to make us happy but to make us holy. And so then people will say well in marriage same thing you're

not supposed to necessarily be happy in your marriage but if you've got a

an abusive marriage then that's a great opportunity to just grow in your holiness. Is that really

what the purpose of marriage is and is that God's ultimate purpose for us as

human beings to suffer in order to become holy.

And what is the role of suffering in our lives?

And that we are gonna, there's so much to cover here.

And we're just gonna sit down,

Rachel and I are just sitting here and we're just going to have a

chat about it and hopefully we can all learn a few things about this subject.

Hey Natalie.

Hi Rachel. Are you ready to dive in? Yeah, there's so much to cover here. This picture of the pious virtuous suffering for Jesus' wife.

Wow, I can't wait to get into this with you.

How did this subject affect your life?

Well, what is the ultimate picture of a Christian woman that is in mainstream Christian culture?

You know, we think about Proverbs 31 and you know staying at home and raising children and

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