03.31.09
Guarding Your Heart
There is a good post, and hopefully some good discussion on the subject going on over at AmyBeth’s blog today. Go check it out and add your two cents, cause I want to read it. :)
I wrote about this previously here.
03.20.09
Letting God Define
I posted a comment over on this post. And I wanted to repost what I wrote here. The original blog entry was from a stay-at-home mom who was struggling to find herself amidst all of the diaper changing. Now I’ve never been a stay at home mom, but I think we’ve all struggled to define ourselves at times. Here’s what I wrote:
Having a niche doesn’t solve the problem…
I’m single and 30, and after several years I’ve finally found my “sweet spot” in the working world as a graphic designer, and I love it, but…
There’s always a better designer out there, and I still have lots of moments where I don’t feel I measure up, or am contributing anything of value.
Like most single women I certainly struggle with envying those women that are already wives and mothers. My only comfort lately is that when it does finally happen for me, I won’t be wondering what job I would get if I could get a job - I don’t feel like that’s healthy comfort, btw.
Bottom line, I think we need to define ourselves in Christ alone… which is a lot easier said than done.
I think the problem lies in trying to define ourselves with things (or people), that no matter how fulfilling, are just simply incomplete to accomplish the task. God never intended for a job, or a role as parent or wife to define us, so it’s never gonna work, no matter how hard we try to make it work.
That being said…
When it does come time for you to find yourself in the working world, it’ll happen for you, just like it’s happened for the rest of us, it might take some time, and some hit and miss/trial and error moments, but we ALL had those. And quite honestly, sometimes a job is just a paycheck, and that is OK. It doesn’t have to be something that defines you, or even something that you are passionate about. Let it serve the function it’s supposed to instead of looking for it to define you.
03.19.09
Letting God Validate
In two weeks our message at Westside is going to be about hurt. Our worship pastor will be speaking, and he asked for people to submit thoughts/stories/ideas to him as he worked on the message. I sent him an email, and in that email I put into words something that I’ve been thinking for a long time. It was really good for me to put it into words, and I wanted to post it here.
… these people were important to my healing process, but way more important was looking to God for validation of my hurt. Finding places in his word that said what happened was wrong. Knowing that He cared, and He never wanted me to be hurt in that way was important, and was way more healing than any human validating the experience, because as I learned some people validated the hurt, others didn’t. I had to decide that I believed God over anyone else’s reaction to the situation.
03.10.09
Prayer request…
M’s mom is having open heart surgery today to repair a valve. Please say a prayer for Nancy.
03.09.09
There’s a boy
And by boy I mean, male, because there’s really nothing boyish about him, he’s a full grown man, and he acts like one. Here’s a picture of us from last weekend when he was here visiting. We had a great time.
His name is Mason, and that’s really all of the details I’m gonna share about him on here, cause I’m not intending for this page to come up in google searches for him. (That would be awkward) Also, for the same reason, hence forth he will be referred to as “M”
You should also be aware, that this is public blog, it is attached to my facebook and he does read it on occasion or at least have access to reading it, so let’s not embarrass me, please.