I want to send you to Marybeth's blog today where she addresses if all the Proverbs 31 team is blissfully happy.
Here's my two cents. I love the saying that comparison is the trap of comparing my insides to everybody else's outsides. Haven't we all gotten very practised at presenting a blissfully happy outside. Sometimes it's because it's the image we want to present, and sometimes it's to make others more comfortable with us. Let's face it. We are all more comfortable with happy people. Happy people don't present us with the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing what to do or say.
On one hand we have this crazy reality-tv mentality that says that nobody has the right to a private life any more. A friend of mine who has a public persona was once attacked by a fan for not letting her audience know some painful things going on in her personal life. My opinion is that we all should still have the right to keep some things personal especially when it involves protecting our families.
On the other hand, I think that it grieves God that we live with so many masks. Bringing pain into the light helps with our own healing and with other's as well.
To debunk the myth that women in ministry are "blissfully happy", here are some of my struggles today:
- making a budget and sticking to it--hate it! hate it! hate it!
- concerns about my boys' next school year
- wondering whether I can pull off teaching while prioritizing my family
- feeling frustrated about my book proposal
- did I mention living within a budget?
Do you have any?
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- I applied for a job I am a bit scared I might not be able to do.
- My son is entering Kindergarten next week, and I am more nervous than he is.
- My son mentioned above just had a temper tantrum yelling that I am not good like grandma because "grandma gives me everything I want." (my 5 yr old)
- I had to get the kids up early to start them on a school schedule and I think I was more crabby than them at having to wake that early.
- I am NOT a morning person.
- Did I mention that I am fighting taking a nap, and my son is still mad at me.
Sigh.
Heather
-No job.
-Tuition coming.
-Daughter back in school.
-My weight. I won't even use the word diet because it's evil! I'm trying to learn the term 'healthy life style'.
-Feel God calling me to step out and am way too nervous.
-The 'B' word Amy said.
-Trying to retrain myself to not be a night owl.
-Staying focused when all I want to do is go in 10 different directions.
-Did I mention 'healthy lifestyle'?
No. I am blissfully happy. Thanks.
Just kidding girl. Thanks for this post. I love ya!
Your 'becoming' friend!
Your article in the Prov 31 Ministry devotional was aimed right at me. I need a richer quiet time, and for me that means some more structure. If I'm currently in a Bible study, I do that day's lesson, but outside of that I struggle. I'll sit down and read the Bible and pray as I read, but your technique peaked my interest. Do you fill out the 3 columns for every verse, or just for every chapter?
Praying I win the journal,
Alethea.Crossman@gmail.com
Amy - Just showed your sharing of the 3-question Bible study method with Anne Graham Lotz (I work on her staff). We thought you would also be blessed by the new free video we place on our site of her teaching the method in an arena - and, the accompanying free worksheets people can download to get started. Just trying to make it as easy as possible, so more women can hear Him speak to them through His Word! here's the page:http://www.annegrahamlotz.com/resources/topic/learning-hear-his-voice/
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