We Have Alternatives
To say that we are in a season of dramatic change and alternatives is a no brainer. The pandemic has complicated things. However, I’d like to remind you that “we” women are up for the challenge based on the complexities of our makeup.
We have dimensions that we ourselves don’t even recognize; let alone the people we engage with over the course of our days. While we may not yet understand why the good Lord created us this way, we must admit to our being a part of His plan. We are awesome.
The intricacy of being a woman evolves from the fact that throughout our lives our “roles” keep changing. As babies we are mommies as we play with baby dolls; toddlers become princesses and ballerinas; in grade school we’re smart and proper; in high school we must be fashionably cute, and then college – careers – and being married with children – or not… There is much insight and revelation to be found in you and in the women around you. At any step along the way we can dare to be something different than the norm. We will not allow any kind of war to ravage our inner core – because we know and understand that our roles never change who we are.
The Sisterhood
Women make things happen; we are a moving, multiplying, maximizing force of nature. This energy that we possess is God given, and a relationship with the Savior births a path of sisterhood provisions for us.
The experience our Father has for His daughters evolves over time and has a specific correlation with who we are and what each of us was designed to affect in the world around us. Getting back to the women in our lives: Some are gold, some are silver, still others are clay pots. You’ll find that each one of them had a season or a reason for showing up in your life. And you’ll have an intense sense for the real friends who build you up and help you to stand.
I am blessed to have five dear friends who span my life at different points from early childhood through today. These women clearly stick out for me because of our long-term relationships. Showing up at different times, they tell the story of me from different perspectives as they cover my various dimensions.
When the Hormones Kick Up
One friend handles the deep emotional part: those days when I feel like I could jump out of my skin or worse, want to hurt somebody else in their skin… or feel relationship pain, not the joy of the Lord, or have to face my own attitudes and come up with better alternatives. One handles the psychological and reasoning part: when I forget that there are reasons behind actions that are unknown to me… she helps me take emotions out of the picture and see things more objectively. Another stands as a reminder of the simple and strategic awesomeness that I have within. When I cannot see the path, and beat myself up on the trail, I see her light. The next one is like my educational echo. When life attacks, she is a reminder of educational truths and factual components as tools for assistance. And last is the one who is my all-around support and cheering partner. She sometimes has to shake the “D” attitudes out of me (distressed, deceived, desperate, demolished)!
Each one holds an important part of the me that is not interchangeable. Mysteriously, on those occasions when I clam up and just don’t want to talk at all, one of them (the right one) will call and say, Girl, what you doing?
Phenomenal Women
The phenomenal part about this sisterhood is how the work of the spirit of God is behind this process.
As if to test this sisterhood theory, several women in sharing their story brought awareness to me of my prayer time with Jesus. Each of my “pet peeves” was met in a different context although revolving around the same emotions and struggles.
* Where I thought things would be different with more resources, one of them had the resources and still felt the same isolation I felt growing up.
* I thought that if I had gotten the positions I should have had, I’d be further along today; one of them got all of the positions without being any further along today.
Here’s the point: Who says where we should be or what we should be doing? Why would we care what somebody else says or thinks about us, when our Creator has the master plan available to us? Why would we want our thoughts instead of His truth? With our complexities – especially when the hormones kick up – we have alternatives in the “owner’s manual” where our Father God holds each chapter of our lives.
Keep the faith! Watch how Jesus comes after you! There’s no shadow He won’t light up, mountain He won’t climb up, wall He won’t kick down, lie He won’t tear down – coming after you! Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God!
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