DECEMBER 30TH 2010
I’ve often asked myself: “What do women do during their mid life crisis?” It’s a question that I’m most sure others of my gender have asked as well.
I believe as women we get so caught up in this “men suck” mind set the world has pushed in our faces that we tend to forget why we were created in the first place.
To be a HELP MATE.
So many things God placed in our laps as Mother’s, wives, daughters, Aunts…and on top of everything we can’t lose sight of who we are as women either.
Our gender, let’s be honest are amazing listeners, comforters, peace makers, friends…If you stop to ponder it’s totally overwhelming the amount of WHOLESOME responsibility The Father placed in our hearts. Our entire being seems to be made up of “nurturing instinct” to care for, listen to, or to simply be there for whomever may need or want it. Everyone meaning from the stranger at the gas station who has told you the most intimate details of her life without even knowing your name all the way to our little babies at home who thinks a hug from Mommy will cure all life’s illnesses 🙂
I think this is such a beautiful gift God has given to us yet in the 21st Century it’s made to seem ugly.
Biting your tongue as a woman used to be a strength, now it’s looked upon as a weakness.
A hard lesson to learn when I’m nearing 40, had 4 children and still realizing the basics of a good wife 😉
There is a saying that goes, “it is better to remain quiet and allow others to THINK you a fool…then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
I get so blown out of my own mind with HAVING to make MY point that I forget the very basis of who I am as a woman. The help mate…So much craziness my poor husband deals with, and as a private man he doesn’t even always tell me…and how am I helping him by running my mouth? Who does it benefit me voicing my anger towards him?
Absolutely no one.
I still am learning, everyday.
My anger and frustrations for things I don’t understand about him should be told to God, in complete private and yet I fail at this on a constant everyday basis. It totally sucks because I hurt no one but my husband, my children and myself.
Sometimes I believe that when God said to “be still and know I am god” He probably meant it for women right smack in the very middle of an argument with their husband. So we could just shut up.
I hate more than seafood to admit that awful truth.
I NEED to be more helpful, and the fact is as women, sometimes the most helpful we can be…is to simply for the moment, hush…and later vent to God. 😉
Selah~
CHERyL
I believe as women we get so caught up in this “men suck” mind set the world has pushed in our faces that we tend to forget why we were created in the first place.
To be a HELP MATE.
So many things God placed in our laps as Mother’s, wives, daughters, Aunts…and on top of everything we can’t lose sight of who we are as women either.
Our gender, let’s be honest are amazing listeners, comforters, peace makers, friends…If you stop to ponder it’s totally overwhelming the amount of WHOLESOME responsibility The Father placed in our hearts. Our entire being seems to be made up of “nurturing instinct” to care for, listen to, or to simply be there for whomever may need or want it. Everyone meaning from the stranger at the gas station who has told you the most intimate details of her life without even knowing your name all the way to our little babies at home who thinks a hug from Mommy will cure all life’s illnesses 🙂
I think this is such a beautiful gift God has given to us yet in the 21st Century it’s made to seem ugly.
Biting your tongue as a woman used to be a strength, now it’s looked upon as a weakness.
A hard lesson to learn when I’m nearing 40, had 4 children and still realizing the basics of a good wife 😉
There is a saying that goes, “it is better to remain quiet and allow others to THINK you a fool…then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.”
I get so blown out of my own mind with HAVING to make MY point that I forget the very basis of who I am as a woman. The help mate…So much craziness my poor husband deals with, and as a private man he doesn’t even always tell me…and how am I helping him by running my mouth? Who does it benefit me voicing my anger towards him?
Absolutely no one.
I still am learning, everyday.
My anger and frustrations for things I don’t understand about him should be told to God, in complete private and yet I fail at this on a constant everyday basis. It totally sucks because I hurt no one but my husband, my children and myself.
Sometimes I believe that when God said to “be still and know I am god” He probably meant it for women right smack in the very middle of an argument with their husband. So we could just shut up.
I hate more than seafood to admit that awful truth.
I NEED to be more helpful, and the fact is as women, sometimes the most helpful we can be…is to simply for the moment, hush…and later vent to God. 😉
Selah~
CHERyL
Gesuschic 
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