Ten Reasons Why I don't Want to be VP when I "Grow Up":

1. As a woman, as one who hopes someday to be a wife and mother, I realize the reality of male headship. 
2. As a young woman, I realize that, if I really want to impact the world, I need to apply myself by impacting the cornerstone of any society: the family (Genesis 2:18-25; family is the first institution set up after creation). 
3. As a woman who hopes someday to be a wife and mother, I realize that my position is not "at the gates," but making my husband (not my employer) known there (Proverbs 31:23)
4. As a young woman, I embrace my role in my home -first as daughter, later as wife -and cherish the protection and guidance that my father -and later, my husband -has been called to afford me. 
5. As a woman who hopes someday to be a wife and mother, I realize the importance of children, arrows to be shot straight into the next generation, and desire to spend my time crafting and perfecting them, not handing off that responsibility to anyone else (Psalms 127:4-5; Deuteronomy 6)
6. As a patriotic American, I proudly recognize the place that women held in the founding of our country; as supportive, loving wives, not merely beautifying ornaments, but women like Abigail Adams, who used her encouraging, open, loving, and intelligent conversation with her husband to help spur him to make some of the most important decisions in our nation's history. 
7. As a Christian, standing in the shambles of a post-modern culture, I embrace my calling as a soldier, but will only fight this battle as our General (the Lord) has set forth in the Battle Plans (the Word); I will not yield to the tyranny of the urgent -I will not compromise my beliefs because "someone needs to get this country back on track, even if it has to be a woman." 
8. As a woman who hopes someday to be a wife and mother, I would never want to usurp my husband's God-given authority in the home (Ephesians 5:22-33), which means I would never want to be in a national position that puts me in authority over him and other heads of household. 
9. As a woman who hopes someday to be a wife and mother, I want to give my household 100%; not 80% for the nation, 20% for my household; not 50% for the nation, 50% for my household; not 90% for my household and 10% for the nation; I want to give everything I can to the home I have been called by God Almighty to guard (Titus 2:3-5), to the family He may make me the mother of. 
10. As a young woman who has been called, first and foremost, to glorify my Lord and Savior, I do not balk at the sphere where He has placed me; I relish in it, because I know He will use me in this sphere to bring glory and honor to Him. 

*It has come to my attention that the title of this post may have offended brothers and sisters in Christ. I am very sorry if it appears haughty or prideful to suggest that I could someday be VP. :) The title was meant to be tongue in cheek, as, at the tender age of eighteen with  no political experience whatsoever... no, the position hasn't , and probably never will be offered to me. :)