Above is a pic of my youngest daughter and me.
My Husband, My brother in Christ
Wednesday Womanhood: Divinely Ordained Pursuit
...the goal of becoming a godly mother is the highest and most noble pursuit of womanhood. God has specially equipped women for that very purpose, and in Christ, women can experience profound satisfaction in that divinely ordained pursuit. They can be who God created them to be.---John MacArthur
It is one of my children's birthdays today. There are 8 people in our family... and 6 of the 8 people have birthdays between October and December. (3 of which are in October) So I am going to spend the day enjoying even more what God has created me to be by celebrating the day that the Lord brought this precious gift into my life.
However, I have to add to the quote above (because this was a sermon that John MacArthur spoke on Mother's Day awhile back) that sometimes God creates some women to be single for His glory and they find profound satsifaction in serving the Lord as a single. God creates some women to adopt children instead of give birth to them for His glory. I could go on. But I know that God is good and will not hold back anything good from His children... but sometimes what is good is a painful trial or a different path than what we imagined.
By the way, one of the best blogs out there written by a single Christian woman is Solo Femininity. Go check it out.
Also, a friend of mine is at a NANC (Nouthetic or Biblical Couseling) conference. We use to go to church together in Tulsa where Dennis Gundersen of Grace and Truth Books is the pastor. She wishes she had the skill to live blog like Challies but is going to be writing about the highlights. She writes, "I wish I could blog this conference for those who can't be here, but where do I begin, and where would I end?" Check her site out too. It is called Practicing Theology.
