What makes a woman?
A woman is one who will balance out the multiple roles in her life perfectly, with humility, dignity, purpose, style and class. Though the roles in different women’s lives may differ, the main few stay the same: Daughter, Wife/Girlfriend, Mother, and Friend. Some women may be more effeminate than the other, some women prefer sneakers to high heels, some women can’t live without make up, while others find solace in roughing it out in the mountains. What we can’t do is to put a cookie cutter over the girls in GoP, expecting that they all turn out exactly the same (God in all His creativity has made us all so diverse and colourful!). However, I believe in the few basic principles that a girl should live by. And this is how I try (my darndest) to be.
I strive to be a woman who is:
- Excellent in all I do (cook, dress, love, write, play, lead, clean, pack, read, teach etc)
- Full of dignity (dress to impress, not seduce; never stoop to gossip about someone who has hurt you, will never take life lying down, will not let people tell me I’m unable, believes that I am beautiful even if no one says it)
- Beautiful (ALL. THE. TIME. There is never an instance in which ugliness is called for)
- Loving (maternal, caring, inclusive..)
- Splendorous (Women who will adorn not just their lives, but other’s lives, with a portion of heaven’s splendor—Fight Like A Girl, Lisa Bevere)
- Virtuous (not conniving, not cheating, not manipulative, not lying, NOT GOSSIPY AT ALL! Etc)
- Fun! (we should add colour to this world, be full of life, don’t whine so much, take things with a pinch of salt, enjoy the beauty, also very sexy)
- Strong (inside and out! Who says only guys can carry boxes? And we really should tone down on the whining)
- Daring (dare to dream, dare to change, dare to do something new, dare to push for more, dare to ask, dare to believe)
- Wise (how else will we be able to teach our children? Or even live our lives?)
- Generous (in every way possible)
- Godly. (nuff’ said)
This list isn’t exhaustive, but basically what I want to be is kinda like this. That when people think of me, they don’t think of a manipulative, whiny wet blanket, they don’t think of a gossipy, two-faced backstabber, they don’t think of a needy weakling, they don’t think of a cheating seductress. But I want people to think of me, and think that I am strong, fun, daring, loving, beautiful, excellent, virtuous, and full of dignity.
We probably won’t be able to achieve all of this in our lifetime, but as much as I can, I want GoP to be opposite of the (negative) stereotype of women. Women were not created to be weak and spineless. We were created to carry the beauty and splendor of God. We were created to serve the Kingdom, the men in our lives, the call of God. We were created for greatness, never to be mediocre. We were created to be wise, loving, and only we can be mothers.
