Sunday, September 16, 2007
taken from the book [ Captivating] ..feminity is not by a prescribed formula, nor a check box.
it is not a "complete this ten things and u are a woman" kind of class.
it starts with the heart.
the heart of a woman is
powerful and tender, fierce and alluring.
don mess with it.
"we rose to the challenge working tgt, and the fact that it required all of me, that i was in it with my familt, to be surrounded by the wildness and dangers. no longer myself in me, but a valient and strong woman."
to be told when you are young and searching that "u can be anything" is not helpful. it's too vast. it gives no directions as to where to head towards. to be told when u are older tat "u can do anything a man can do" isn't helpful too. i didn't want to be a man. what does it meant to be a woman?
how can a woman of God , and be confident ,scandalous and beautiful, yet not portray herself as a feminist Nazi, or an insecure I -need-attention emotional whore. how can she become a strong woman without becoming harsh? how can she be vulnerable without drowning herself in her sorrow?
a godly woman is .. tired.
we feel unseen ,even by those who are closest to us.
we feel unsought, that no one has the passion or the courage to pursue us, to get past our messiness to find the woman deep inside. and
we feel uncertain, uncertain what it even means to be a woman, uncertain what it truly means to be feminine, uncertain if we are or ever will be..
"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life" - Proverbs 4:23
let all women to be the Sleeping Beauty , the Cinderella, the Snow White, the Little Mermaid, the Beauty, the Elinor, the Jo, the Murron, to be pursued by the Prince who kiss, the Prince with the glass slipper, the Prince who saves, the Prince who look beyond her tail, the Beast, the Edward, the Friedrich, the William of their life.
let no woman take the role of the man.
let what is originally of God's plan, to be of what it should be.
when we are all young, we long to be precious to someone. as we grow older, that longing turns into a desire to be pursued and wanted as a woman.
do not be ashamed to yearn, to long for love.
why should i be embarassed to do so?
it is and still is in my very nature.
outward beauty would had been nothing;
if not for the beauty of the heart inwards
all our lifes, women had been trying to pursue this beauty, that would attract many to chase and sought after, worth the effort to be fought over. but after much turmoil and tears shed in this pursuit, we gradually came to the realization of that - the beauty is to be coming from the heart, and not anywhere else.and so .. [note to myself]as men are made to pursue , women are made to wait to be pursued.let the order not to be disrupted. let what is to be done; to be done.Daddy, guard my heart. let me wait in my chamber quietly(:
7:44 PM { and i opened my heart(:
