If she never "asks the blessing", how is she following the LEAD of the HEAD of the family?
I ask this question to make a point.
Don't conflate/confuse the 'headship' and 'leadership' aspects of the family responsibility that God gave to the man.
Yes - it is customary for the HEAD of the family to "ask the blessing" before a meal.
However, everyone who will partake should be making their own prayer of thanks to God.
I do not believe that the idea of one person praying "for the group" is what God has in mind.
I personally find it distracting to make my prayer of thanks to God while listening to someone else speak theirs aloud. In most situations, I would prefer if everyone just "said their own" silently --- but, I digress...
Leadership is, in part, about giving/making an/the example which others should follow.
If you do not follow the example that was set forth - you are not "obeying* the leadership that/which/who set forth the example that you were supposed to follow.
If it were not for one very specific thing, I would consider this to be blasphemous; however, I believe that I do in fact understand the particular way that you mean it. (So, I am not suggesting that it is blasphemous.)
Nonetheless, we should never 'cross' or 'mix' these two ideas - the appreciation a husband has for and shows to his wife for her efforts in preparing meals - and - the thanksgiving that both of them should give to God for providing it for/to them.
Neither of them has the right before God to "gloat" and have an "I did it" attitude.
The husband may have put forth the effort to earn the wage that buys the ingredients - and, the wife may have put forth the effort to prepare the meal from those ingredients - but, God gave them both the ability to do what they did.
If the wife has the attitude that she shouldn't have to pray (give thanks to God) because she prepared the meal --- oh-wow, that is so dangerous before God...
I ask this question to make a point.
Don't conflate/confuse the 'headship' and 'leadership' aspects of the family responsibility that God gave to the man.
Yes - it is customary for the HEAD of the family to "ask the blessing" before a meal.
However, everyone who will partake should be making their own prayer of thanks to God.
I do not believe that the idea of one person praying "for the group" is what God has in mind.
I personally find it distracting to make my prayer of thanks to God while listening to someone else speak theirs aloud. In most situations, I would prefer if everyone just "said their own" silently --- but, I digress...
Leadership is, in part, about giving/making an/the example which others should follow.
If you do not follow the example that was set forth - you are not "obeying* the leadership that/which/who set forth the example that you were supposed to follow.
If it were not for one very specific thing, I would consider this to be blasphemous; however, I believe that I do in fact understand the particular way that you mean it. (So, I am not suggesting that it is blasphemous.)
Nonetheless, we should never 'cross' or 'mix' these two ideas - the appreciation a husband has for and shows to his wife for her efforts in preparing meals - and - the thanksgiving that both of them should give to God for providing it for/to them.
Neither of them has the right before God to "gloat" and have an "I did it" attitude.
The husband may have put forth the effort to earn the wage that buys the ingredients - and, the wife may have put forth the effort to prepare the meal from those ingredients - but, God gave them both the ability to do what they did.
If the wife has the attitude that she shouldn't have to pray (give thanks to God) because she prepared the meal --- oh-wow, that is so dangerous before God...
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