Girls group again tonight. For the most part, we were much more successful in our cooking attempts; we made yummy gourmet pizza. Our attempt at chocolate pudding, however, was much less skilled... we doubled the recipe, but our dodgy church oven didn't cook it through, even in the hour that we'd left it in the oven. So, we just had runny chocolate-ness instead! It was good enough.
As for the book, today was about a woman's main question in life. Basically, the book said that there was one question that a woman's life revolved around, and another for men. Little boys grow up asking 'am i going to be good enough?' - and women grow up asking 'am i lovely?'
To some degree, i agree with that. Little girls dancing around in dress-up clothes, vying for their mum and dad's attention, always falling short of feeling truly lovely. As we grow up, we hunt for people to tell us how lovely we are. Generally, the people around us and the men that we love. We put such an effort into our appearance, for fear that our conversational skills won't make a good enough impression. We just want people to tell us we're lovely.
The book went on to talk about the way that God thinks we're truly lovely. He loves us, he worships us (in the way that we're supposed to worship him), he doesn't need us to dress up to impress him because he already can see exactly why we're lovely.
We're constantly getting hurt, because people never react to us in the way that we want them to, they never truly convince us of our worth (and i think the next chapter might tell us exactly how we can deal with being so wounded). Basically, i think the aim of the chapter was to tell us that the only person who could make us feel lovely, to tell us that we're lovely and therefore answer our 'question' in life, is God himself. Nothing on earth will do the same.
Again - the moral of the story? What's the point of waiting for people on earth to love us, care for us, or fulfill us, when they're bound to disapoint us? Why look for that on earth when God is ready and waiting to do all of those things and more?
As for the book, today was about a woman's main question in life. Basically, the book said that there was one question that a woman's life revolved around, and another for men. Little boys grow up asking 'am i going to be good enough?' - and women grow up asking 'am i lovely?'
To some degree, i agree with that. Little girls dancing around in dress-up clothes, vying for their mum and dad's attention, always falling short of feeling truly lovely. As we grow up, we hunt for people to tell us how lovely we are. Generally, the people around us and the men that we love. We put such an effort into our appearance, for fear that our conversational skills won't make a good enough impression. We just want people to tell us we're lovely.
The book went on to talk about the way that God thinks we're truly lovely. He loves us, he worships us (in the way that we're supposed to worship him), he doesn't need us to dress up to impress him because he already can see exactly why we're lovely.
We're constantly getting hurt, because people never react to us in the way that we want them to, they never truly convince us of our worth (and i think the next chapter might tell us exactly how we can deal with being so wounded). Basically, i think the aim of the chapter was to tell us that the only person who could make us feel lovely, to tell us that we're lovely and therefore answer our 'question' in life, is God himself. Nothing on earth will do the same.
Again - the moral of the story? What's the point of waiting for people on earth to love us, care for us, or fulfill us, when they're bound to disapoint us? Why look for that on earth when God is ready and waiting to do all of those things and more?
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