One More Thought
I'd like to thank Christine for her comment:
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"It's a rewarding job, on its own. I chose poverty so that I could be home with the kids when they were tiny.
It's definitely a personal choice every woman has to decide for herself, either way!
The world is not big on selflessness, and that's the main requirement for being a good mother and wife.
Knowing when to set aside your own wants and needs, and when to tend to them can be tricky, and most women take it to unhealthy extremes, one way or the other.
I think that finding the best balance between what the mom needs for herself and what the kids/husband need from her can only really occur if the woman turns to God through it all."
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I'd like to think I'm striving for the balance. If there's one thing that ranckles me more than the funny looks is when people then automatically dump me in the pile of extremists. I am not an extremist. Please no. I am not going to wish flames of fire down on your head if you don't have this same desire.
God has individual plans for each of us. I'd much rather you stayed in touch with Him and listened to Him with an open heart than reading every argument for or against motherhood. Just don't disregard any seemingly strange ideas He might implant in your heart. So often I think we figure out what we think we should consider in life, choose a few options and then hold them up like lucky straws before God and say, "Ok, which one do you want me to do?" instead of falling on our knees in total submission and saying, "God, I am so human and frail. My wisest thought is your dumbest. Please prepare me for what You have in mind, and when you think it's time, let me know."
I guess this is something I had to come to myself. I had to realize my decision had to rest on what God was telling me and not on the views held by the women around me.
I also had to realize I saw no justification to join the girls who then take this decision and sit on it waiting for God to forfill it. I'm not going to sit here indefinitely waiting for God to drop a man on my doorstep. I'd have to join the group of level-headed people who term this as extreme.
For a girl to do that is the equivalent of a guy saying, "I feel God has called me to be a pilot." And then when he can't find a job as a pilot, then refuses to consider any other option in the meantime. I believe God does have plans for my life in the 'waiting-time' and it's my responsibility to keep my ears open to His immediate leading. Sometimes, I believe, He leads us to be mechanics first so that we might be better fit to be a pilot later. We need to keep our hearts open--need to seek Him in His wisdom every day.
Serving God is afterall about the now. It's about one day at a time.
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