This really great article came across my view this morning and I really want to share:
http://www.bpnews.net/44326/firstperson-run-like-a-girl
If you have not seen the commercial, watch this all the way through to see the variations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3GpXgFwWmk
Now to discuss:
I believe that more times than we want to admit, WOMEN are our own worst enemy, NOT men, not society, not race relations, not "the glass ceiling" not anything else. But Other Women.
I can honestly say that over my life time I have LOST more friends than I have kept largely because other women have had different definitions of "like a girl" than I have had. This happened to me again just over a year ago. And I still don't understand but I know that it really wasn't about me, it was about preconceived ideas of who I SHOULD be.
I am a girl who.....is most comfortable driving a pickup truck. Riding a horse. Schlepping bales of hay.
I am a girl who.....is strong-willed, can be passive/passive aggressive, concerned about the happiness and welfare of those around me, most especially my family members and will do anything I can do to help them achieve their goals in life sometimes to my own detriment.
I am a girl who...... was raised by other very strong women who wanted better for me than they perceived that they had. It has only been in the last few years that I have begun to understand the things that they had that they didn't see. Things that we need to bring back for women, that I am on a crusade to explore and make sure my daughters know about.
I am a girl who...... doesn't particularly like most girlie things, you will nearly always find me in jeans and tee-shirts and boots, rarely in anything resembling a dress and almost NEVER in heals. Im trying to learn to accessorize but I don't do it well. I hate manicures and pedicures
I am a girl who....... picks her battles pretty well, If it isn't worth my fight, I will ignore the issue but if it is worth my fight, Im like a dog on a bone and you will not know what hit you.
I am a girl who....... has been married twice. Gasp, that means I have also been divorced. Believe me when I say that it was not my first choice, but God as always according to HIS nature took something bad and turned it into something beautiful, wonderful, and honoring to Him. I have 4 children that I gave birth to and a nephew and 2 nieces that I was also instrumental in raising. I did not breast feed and I have thoughts on the issue that make me not popular to either side of the issue. I have been a working mother most of my parenting career, my children have been in daycare, with a grand parent, with me as their only care giver, in public school, in private school, homeschooled. I have done my best to train my children up in the Lord and according to THEIR bent, not my own.
I am a girl who currently spends 50 or more hours a week building a trucking business with my husband, spent most of the rest of my life working in the family businesses, while keeping my own home.
I am a girl who is old enough to be a product of the ERA GENERATION and I have had to unlearn and relearn many things in my life. I understand women's drive to be important and in charge and fell into beliefs that were not biblical for a number of years.
But I am a girl whos main goal in life is to some day hear: You are my daughter and my good and faithful servant. I strive to love Jesus with my entire mind, body, spirit and strength. Every day I try to live out my life as the Girl God Meant Me to Be, not the girl someone else thinks I should be.
I love the ending of the article where she compares herself to the Proverbs 31 woman. I believe that again, many times too many we are "browbeat" with the perfection of that woman, who ever she was.
I AM that woman to one degree or another but my goal is to go back and study that passage again in a new light. I want to study to be able to be the best "older woman" I can be to be of service to the younger women in my life!!!!!
