Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Relationships don't define me.... Or my lack of them.
Today might be a two post day, because I just got fired up about something I wasn't intending on talking about: Who I am. I don't think anybody realizes how much our culture defines us by our relationships or lack there of. So many people see me as a Right as a Good single Christian girl. Before this I was my parents daughter, after this I will be someone's wife, then maybe someone's mother, grandmother, etc. But while it is good to bond with those that are in the same place in life as the rest of us, I don't see the point in being defined by my relationships. I may be single right now, but that is not who I am. I am a Christian, a writer, a minister, a volunteer, a creative thinker, independent, and the list goes on. I am more than my relationships- save one- my relationship with God. That should be the only relationship that ever defines anyone. I do not need to feed my singleness, because I will not be single forever, in the same way that I did not need to feed the spirituality of being my parents child, but only the spirituality of following God, because that is what makes us better at our relationships. That is what made me a better daughter, is making me a better single person, will make me a better wife, mother, and grandmother. That I am finding who I am in God, and not Who I am for the moment. God is eternal, This moment has pasted. So don't seek to find yourself in your present circumstances, those will always change, seek only God and his will, and the rest will make since in the end.
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