Dec. 7, 2009

My first official blog...and you are the lucky reader.
Finals start this week...I'll be studying my life away starting tomorrow. That is, as long as the book I bought today (A Young Lady in Waiting by Jackie Kendall & Debbie Jones) doesn't end up being a page turner. I'm on page 29 (its a small book so that really isn't that far along) and it's a great read. I quote from it that I really liked....
"A woman is not born a woman. Nor does she become one when she marries a man, bears a child and does their dirty linen, not even when she joins a women's liberation movement. A woman becomes a woman when she becomes what God wants her to be."
I was Christmas shopping at Barnes and Noble when I found this book, read the first couple pages and decided to go ahead and purchase it. Lately, I've been struggling in my spiritual relationship....concentrating solely on pleasing the people around me. Making the grade, fitting the part, having the outfit, being happy.
Ive been struggling with wanting to fall in love...wanting to be in a relationship with the idealistic perfect guy.
I want to have the best clothes...I want to look good...
However, today is the start of a self-intervention. Nothing on Earth can complete me or suffice my want and need. In the book, metioned above, the author speaks of an alabaster box. In the days of our Jesus, when a young lady becomes "of age", her family bought a box made of alabaster. They filled this box with valuable oils. When a man came and asked for the young womans hand in marriage, she would break the box at his feet and annoint him in the oils. "A woman, in the city who was a sinner" Luke 7:37, found Jesus and broke her box of oils and poured them on Jesus' head. She wasted, in some peoples' eyes, her most valuable possession. What is most valuable to you? Would you lay be more than willing to lay it at the feet of our Lord?