This culture heralds STRONG, CONFIDENT, women.

But what happens when we come up short and reach the end of ourselves?

Where does our identity come from?  What defines us as women?  Our body, job, a man, children, or material wealth?  More than ever, there are so many distractions for women today.  We can place our identity in THINGS that were never meant to bear it and find it comes up empty-or worse, we come up broken.

I am more than a sexual being.  I am more than a mother of four children.  I am more than a pastor’s wife.  I am first and most of all, His daughter.  God has defined us first as His daughters!  As an image-bearer, I was created with that purpose of being identified with Him.  Apart from that identity, I will always be missing “something”.  Being a wife, mother, doctor, teacher, or anything else-these are all just things we do.  And when you allow God to define you, you will “do” or love all those other things well.   When you come back to God through Jesus, you find that He accepts you.  You find that you are securely held in your position as His daughter and you are highly valued now with significance, purpose, and definition!

My posts on the challenges and joys of being a woman:

1. (Marriage) Fighting the Female Creep
2. Dealing with Disappointments Blow
3. (Beauty and Aging): Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
4. Throwing Off Yesterday
5. Running in the Rain
6. Doing Stupid
7. Sister Act or a Real Sisterhood?
8. Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom
9.  The Blossoming of Nim and Two Questions Every Girl Wants Answered
10.  Secrets of Those Middle Age Moments No One is Telling You
11. When Pain Calls Your Name
12.  Confessions of a Control Freak in a World Gone Mad
13.  Things Wives Wish Their Husbands Would Remember
14.  When You Feel Paralyzed by Perfect
15. Beyond the Body: The Real Wonder of Womanhood

A message on emotional healing by Kimberly Waldie from March 16, 2014: