Monday, October 30, 2006

Master, mission, mate

oh men, the constant white noise in every woman's life. (paraphrased from Post Cards from Corinth, the chapter entitled "Daughters of Eve".)

i recently read this from Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, and it resonated deeply within me.

Jesus, if this is Your will
then YES to being single,
In my deepest heart, i want to marry,
to belong to a great man;
to know that i am linked to his life...
and he to mine...
following Christ and our dreams together...
but You know what i need.
if i never marry, it is YES to You.

~Ann Kiemel Anderson

there have been times where i have despaired, cried, wanted to slow down, or maybe...even stop, and no doubt i will experience similar things in the future, but God is good. the only way i can put mate in front of mission is to change the whole order and put it in front of Master, but i am sorely deceiving myself if i think that would the best scheme of things.

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:23 PM

    Well said my dear.
    I love you Shelly. :)
    v

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  2. you need a new post. i am only leaving a comment so you know that i am the traffic that you just tracked coming in from vancouver. you crazy visitor-counting girl.

    i also miss you.

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  3. oh, and i didn't mean to discount your post. it was good. only you wrote it over a week ago...and all this traffic you get is just ACHING for more words to drip from your honey lips.

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  4. Anonymous10:49 PM

    You are a beautiful woman of faith Shelly!
    I just found it you have a blog. Oh man~
    Have fun there!

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  5. oh how I wish we could still have our table talk!

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