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\"\"<\/a>by Ima Wakenow<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When I received my latest issue of Above Rubies<\/a> I was truly looking forward to it.\u00a0 Everyone raved about this magazine that has been \u201cStrengthening Families Across the World\u201d for 32 years.\u00a0 It is a much anticipated event due to the sporadic publishing of the magazine.\u00a0 You see, AR only publishes when enough donations have come in to make a complete distribution of their full color 32 page periodical.\u00a0 I never really had the opportunity to read AR consistently but I had picked up an issue here and there.\u00a0 It was never an earth moving experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

The entire issue seems to have a common theme running through.\u00a0 The pages are stuffed full of testimonials about various ailments that had been cured\u2026yes, I said cured, through child bearing.\u00a0 And I don\u2019t mean your typical child bearing.\u00a0 I\u2019m speaking of the repeated and continuous Quiverful type child bearing.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t talking about sciatica pain either.\u00a0 The ailments include panic attacks, migraines, fatigue, poor marriage, depression, chronic pain (from adhesions), nosebleeds and aging.\u00a0 And these aren\u2019t just silly little clich\u00e9s like \u201cChildren keep you young.\u201d\u00a0 These are multi paragraph articles proposing the answer to all your problems is just having more babies.\u00a0 The second half of the magazine has a large spread on V-BAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) births and how successful they are.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As I perused the pages of this latest AR installment my eyes settled on an article written by Nancy Campbell\u2019s daughter herself, Serene.\u00a0 There she is with her beautiful family.\u00a0 Everyone is smiling.\u00a0 They look so happy.\u00a0 I eagerly began reading the article written by Nancy Campbell\u2019s own progeny.\u00a0 Surely, this serving should be savored morsel by morsel. After all, who else would have a better grip on how to live this Above Rubies life than someone that grew up in it?<\/p>\n

Before I finished the first paragraph I found myself forced to go back and reread what was written.\u00a0 Did she really just say that due to poor plumbing this story is set during a time when she had no running water?\u00a0 I\u2019m already sympathetic toward her.\u00a0 Wow, it\u2019s hard to live without running water but to do so with 8 little blessings would be doubly hard.\u00a0 I\u2019m already looking forward to the happy ending.<\/p>\n

Instead I read about how this family, whose oldest child is 12, is first forced to haul water from the stock tank (after breaking the ice), then fetch water down the hill and back up again in 5 gallon buckets, survive in a freezing cold house, then suffer as smoke billowed out of the wood stove, then wear goggles to keep smoke out of their eyes, then lay on the floor while the children opened doors and windows to air out the place.\u00a0 Finally, to escape the smoke, they went outside in freezing weather to run laps around the house to stay warm.\u00a0 And poor Serene cried.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is not the worst part of the story, nor the reason I felt compelled to write this review.\u00a0 We all have bad days.\u00a0 We even might have bad weeks, months or entire years.\u00a0 I think we can all relate to someone who has had a \u201csmoke billowing into the living room\u201d day even if we have never even seen a wood stove in person.\u00a0 The part that really had me shaking my head was that throughout the description of this event Serene interjects chastisement for herself.\u00a0 She cries after finding the only way to breath in her home is by laying with her baby on the floor and she says \u201cI didn\u2019t try to be a big coping girl anymore.\u201d\u00a0 She expresses displeasure at running laps with a baby in the freezing cold but her reproof to herself is that she \u201cpopped their [the children] bubble with my tirade of negativity.\u201d I\u2019m not sure who told Serene that children are brainless idiots but I have no doubt that her little blessings already knew that they were cold and tired.<\/p>\n

The answer for Serene, she decides, is to create a mind game to get through future situations.\u00a0 And I must interject here that it appears there will be many many \u201cfuture situations\u201d as Serene never mentions fixing any of the problems or how her loving husband is rectifying the mess.\u00a0 She goes on to explain about her \u201cInanimate Filter\u201d.\u00a0 The premise is that if something doesn\u2019t have a \u201csoul or spirit\u201d then it isn\u2019t worth worrying about.\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t waste good energy\u201d her advice goes.\u00a0 There are several things wrong with this theory.\u00a0 Sometimes events are important even though they have no soul because they effect someone who does.\u00a0 Serene is promoting lying.\u00a0 She is participating in asceticism (the doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, self-mortification, and the like).\u00a0 She is being a bad witness for Christ.\u00a0 And this type of behavior is not sustainable.<\/p>\n

Someone that is living in a difficult situation with children can not pretend that the situation isn\u2019t difficult.\u00a0 There are other people involved and the adults\u2019 primary focus should be on them.\u00a0 Living in a freezing, smoke filled home with no running water is not what little children deserve.\u00a0 What kind of example is it to them that their parents choose not to provide basic needs like adequate shelter.\u00a0 Children need stability and security to grow up healthy.\u00a0 They need to be shown how to appropriately respond to trials and how to aspire for something better.\u00a0 Denial doesn\u2019t work and it\u2019s irresponsible for the kids.<\/p>\n

When you are in a difficult life sometimes you have to lie to yourself to get through the day.\u00a0 But then the question becomes \u201cIs lying to yourself and your children still lying?\u201d\u00a0 We all know it\u2019s a bad idea to lie to other people.\u00a0 When Serene tells her kids that all is well in spite of their frost bite she loses credibility with them.\u00a0 And lying to yourself?\u00a0 That\u2019s not cool either.\u00a0 When you lie to yourself you are basically saying that what you truly feel, see and hear is wrong.\u00a0 This leads to more confusion about what is real and soon you end up relying on other people to tell you how to respond in any given situation.\u00a0 That\u2019s a set up for abuse if I ever saw one.\u00a0 Lying is unscriptural and I argue that lying to yourself is just as bad as lying to others.\u00a0 The fall out is worse.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t trust yourself, who can you trust?<\/p>\n

While we will have times that we suffer there are a group of people that believe in suffering for the purpose of being more Godly.\u00a0 This is called asceticism.\u00a0 Self denial and martyrdom run rampant in these individuals but only for the purpose of becoming more holy.\u00a0 While the scriptures tell us that we will suffer for being Christians I would hardly consider living in a run down house a mission field for Christ.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like she is on the mission field in Africa and has to live in a grass hut to reach the people.\u00a0 No, Serene is suffering because her husband and family refuse to do the things that would make her life comfortable and Serene herself doesn\u2019t have the power to make it better.\u00a0 She comforts herself with the idea that she is being \u201crefined\u201d and \u201csanctified\u201d when in reality she is just being neglected and abused by everyone around her.<\/p>\n

What sort of witness is she for Christ?\u00a0 What do people see when they look at this poor mother of many shivering in the cold?\u00a0 They see a woman who is denied basic care.\u00a0 She is not allowed to make her predicament better. Her husband is comfortable forcing her to live in these conditions.\u00a0 What\u2019s worse, at the Campbell compound a large portion of the family all live on one parcel of land.\u00a0 So, Serene has family nearby.\u00a0 What did they do to help in the moment and what ongoing action are they taking to make long term changes for her and the children?\u00a0 It is disgusting to think that there is a permanent problem with the water pipe and everyone around her just shrugs.\u00a0 No one takes her husband to task.\u00a0 These leaders in the patriarchal movement turn the other way when their own daughter is suffering.\u00a0 How will the unbelievers \u201cknow we are Christians by our love\u201d if we eat our own?<\/p>\n

This type of avoidance of the truth can only last so long.\u00a0 When the truth of standing on the snow with 7 children and a baby slaps you in the face for the 5th time in as many seconds it is impossible to forget the \u201cInanimate\u201d things.\u00a0 Lies can not stand.\u00a0 It\u2019s no surprise that her \u201cgrumpiest face\u201d kept reappearing.\u00a0 That is because she was having trouble lying to herself.\u00a0 God, himself, gave her feeling in her fingers so that she might know when she is cold and have the good sense to go someplace warmer.\u00a0 What Serene needs is a better answer to her cold, smoky, waterless house.\u00a0 Something she can hang her hat on like the knowledge that because people care for her they are in the process of fixing her house to make it livable again.\u00a0 She may still have her bad days but the bad days are so much easier to bear when you know change is coming or at least someone cares!!<\/p>\n

In the P.S. to this story Serene adds a little update that since the story of the smoky, freezing house they had some severe flooding that destroyed her downstairs flooring.\u00a0 She congratulates herself for keeping her \u201cInanimate Filter\u201d in high gear during this time and she didn\u2019t throw a big fit.\u00a0 They now live completely upstairs and she feels no occasion to be concerned that her situation is very difficult and may not change.\u00a0 She has completely disassociated from reality.\u00a0 What does her future hold?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only answers Serene offers are lies, lies and more lies.\u00a0 Is this the lesson she has learned from the matriarch of self denial and martyrdom?\u00a0 As I look at the examples presented in the rest of the magazine I see that this is true.\u00a0 With the exception of 6 pages of ads for the AR products, the entire focus of this piece of literature is to convince you that your horrible situation is ok, fine, comfortable, not as bad as someone else, tolerable, pretend, all your fault and just plain great.\u00a0 It\u2019s not.\u00a0 It\u2019s a falsehood to say differently.\u00a0 Above Rubies applauds women who manage to delude themselves with statements about how they should have tried harder and their feelings are invalid.\u00a0 Above Rubies is a\u00a0magazine of lies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIma Wakenow\u201d is a former Quiverfull mom of many.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>by Ima Wakenow<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When I received my latest issue of Above Rubies<\/a> I was truly looking forward to it. Everyone raved about this magazine that has been \u201cStrengthening Families Across the World\u201d for 32 years. It is a much anticipated event due to the sporadic publishing of the magazine. You see, AR only publishes when enough donations have come in to make a complete distribution of their full color 32 page periodical. I never really had the opportunity to read AR consistently but I had picked up an issue here and there. It was never an earth moving experience.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

The entire issue seems to have a common theme running through. The pages are stuffed full of testimonials about various ailments that had been cured\u2026yes, I said cured, through child bearing. And I don\u2019t mean your typical child bearing. I\u2019m speaking of the repeated and continuous Quiverful type child bearing. We aren\u2019t talking about sciatica pain either. The ailments include panic attacks, migraines, fatigue, poor marriage, depression, chronic pain (from adhesions), nosebleeds and aging. And these aren\u2019t just silly little clich\u00e9s like \u201cChildren keep you young.\u201d These are multi paragraph articles proposing the answer to all your problems is just having more babies. The second half of the magazine has a large spread on V-BAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) births and how successful they are.<\/p>\n

As I perused the pages of this latest AR installment my eyes settled on an article written by Nancy Campbell\u2019s daughter herself, Serene. There she is with her beautiful family. Everyone is smiling. They look so happy. I eagerly began reading the article written by Nancy Campbell\u2019s own progeny. Surely, this serving should be savored morsel by morsel. After all, who else would have a better grip on how to live this Above Rubies life than someone that grew up in it?<\/p>\n

Before I finished the first paragraph I found myself forced to go back and reread what was written. Did she really just say that due to poor plumbing this story is set during a time when she had no running water? I\u2019m already sympathetic toward her. Wow, it\u2019s hard to live without running water but to do so with 8 little blessings would be doubly hard. I\u2019m already looking forward to the happy ending.<\/p>\n

Instead I read about how this family, whose oldest child is 12, is first forced to haul water from the stock tank (after breaking the ice), then fetch water down the hill and back up again in 5 gallon buckets, survive in a freezing cold house, then suffer as smoke billowed out of the wood stove, then wear goggles to keep smoke out of their eyes, then lay on the floor while the children opened doors and windows to air out the place. Finally, to escape the smoke, they went outside in freezing weather to run laps around the house to stay warm. 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