From Sandy Schindler’s class: This class has been a very encouraging class for me. I have lived in this life without knowing anyone else who lived in it for almost 30 years. Through this class I have met women of all ages who are looking for what I have looked for, someone to share this journey of femininity with. It’s interesting to hear their stories and read their challenges, how FW has changed their life, and their struggles of living this “against society” way.
I read the book when we were first married and put many of the facets of FW into practice. There were times of backsliding and then re-reading the book. There were good times and there were times of uncertainty but I didn’t have anyone to share my struggles with. I would talk about the book but would not receive much response from my peers. They were interested in making something of themselves, not being subservient women.
The class has given me comraderie. It has given me feedback to know I am not alone. It has answered questions and challenged me to go on with my journey, to make my marriage even better than it is. Through the weeks I have had the privilege of watching my husband respond with even more than he has in the past. He has become so protective of me. He is doing so much more and requiring so much less of me. He almost hovers over me. He is there to help in any way and yet allows me to be the woman I need to be.
This class has shown me that being a woman in the greatest sense of the word is to be the best there is. It has shown me that the principles are proven and do work with others, not just with me. It has given me the momentum I need to continue on keeping on.
This class has taken the book and given me the tools to use along with the book to implement the principles. It has encouraged feedback. It has helped me know without a doubt that I will not turn back or allow myself to backslide. Life is too good this way to slide back.
read the book when we were first married and put many of the facets of FW into practice. There were times of backsliding and then re-reading the book. There were good times and there were times of uncertainty but I didn’t have anyone to share my struggles with. I would talk about the book but would not receive much response from my peers. They were interested in making something of themselves, not being subservient women.
The class has given me comraderie. It has given me feedback to know I am not alone. It has answered questions and challenged me to go on with my journey, to make my marriage even better than it is. Through the weeks I have had the privilege of watching my husband respond with even more than he has in the past. He has become so protective of me. He is doing so much more and requiring so much less of me. He almost hovers over me. He is there to help in any way and yet allows me to be the woman I need to be.
This class has shown me that being a woman in the greatest sense of the word is to be the best there is. It has shown me that the principles are proven and do work with others, not just with me. It has given me the momentum I need to continue on keeping on.
This class has taken the book and given me the tools to use along with the book to implement the principles. It has encouraged feedback. It has helped me know without a doubt that I will not turn back or allow myself to backslide. Life is too good this way to slide back.
A Forgotten, Timeless Treasure
From Sandy Schindler’s class: Debra, a friend of mine whom I enthusiastically introduced to the book and the online classes, told her mother about it and it turns out that her mother had a copy of it that had been passed down from her grandmother. Today she was good enough to bring it over to let me take a look at it, for based on her description of their finding the book I was truly desirous of taking a look at it. Upon looking at the preface I found it to be a 4th hardbound edition with a publication date of August 1966. However, upon first glance of the book one would have thought it to be a forgotten timeless treasure pulled from the shelf then preserved in time, for its pages were crisp and fresh as though it had hardly been touched, much less read. Can you imagine that it was as though it were waiting there all this time for someone to pick it up and read it? If it could have spoken I’m sure it would have said in a most feminine manner, thank you, thank you ever so much for spreading the word that sparked my memory from off that long forgotten shelf!
I was particularly intrigued by its cream colored hard bound cover for just below it’s title was the figure of Angela Human with the name of the author, Helen Andelin just below it. Upon thumbing through its pages I soon found myself drawn to read it, even though I have the two latest editions of it already. I found that when the time came for her to leave I had a hard time handing it back. However, I realized what a treasure she and her mother had been blessed with and in no way was I about to take that which didn’t belong to me.
When my girls came home from school she drove me to the library and allowed me to copy the pages that were of particular interest to me so I could add them to my collection of FW articles and such. Debra’s mother finished reading the book in a week, for she said it was so good she had a hard time putting it down, to which I said, “Yes, that’s understandable. I had the same problem myself upon reading it. Debra has plans to read it herself, for everyone from me to her mother and grandmother have raved about just how good the book is. Her grandmother called her at 10:00 pm, waking her from her sleep, to tell her she had gone out and bought the book and was in the process of reading it. Now her mother is planning to purchase the current 1991 edition, and is desirous to buy it for an extended family member. Wow, Debra and I really sparked an interest in FW among her family members.
I feel that by my own raving of the book I caused a spark of interest that stirred the memory of that once forgotten book back to life within the palm of their hands and now I’m feeling the rippling effect of my own zest for FW, planted in the soil of these, my fellow sisters and their friends, within my influence. The grandmother even remarked to her granddaughter that she remembered me having born testimony, in sacrament meeting Sunday, to the truthfulness of the FW principles so outlined within the pages of that book? And though I don’t exactly remember the words I used to bear my testimony, I know it came from my heart in a desire to spread the word of something I found to be a priceless treasure to any who would read it and apply its principles.
Her grandmother was among the congregation the day I stood up and bore my testimony. However, I don’t take it upon myself to be the one who bears witness of its truthfulness to the hearts of those whom I’ve influenced to read it. I am but a messenger for the truth it holds therein. However, it warms my heart to see it so and I only hope I can continue to spread the word with as much zeal to the hearts of those who so need it, not only by my word but by my works in applying these principles within my own life as I strive to reach the pedestal of FW.
Fascinating Womanhood was given to me as a gift from the hand of God. My hearts desire is that I may do no less than be an instrument within his hand in spreading it to those around me by becoming a living instrument of it myself. May God so mold me within the palm of his hand is my prayer. Kathy Turner