Being a Girl

Life Chats. Earrings. Sparkles. Shopping Trips. Glitter. Rings. Tears.  Best Friends. Teasing Combs. Nail Polish. Perfume. Girly Movies. Disney Princesses. Pink. Flowers. Bracelets. Giggles. Necklaces. Dresses. Chocolate. High Heels. Laughter. Jewels. Chick-Flicks. Perfume. Slumber Parties. ‘Pretty, Pretty Princess’ Game. Shrieking. Hugs. Purses. Hair Salons. Pearls. Pictures. Bows. Pedicures. Ribbon.

Being a girl most certainly has it’s perks!

 

There is something so much fun about getting all ‘dolled’ up with your friends! However, we have to be honest-- even the most sparkly gems, the biggest jewelry, nor the most fashionable purse can help us to discover the best that life has to offer.

This past weekend some friends and i headed to ‘Girl’s Getaway.’ In between the chocolate fountain, shopping, and movie theater we learned about the different realities that we may face as girls. On this blog before i know that i’ve admitted to the ease that it takes to create our own realities. And most of the times those realities don’t align with truth. And without truth only discontentment can be the result.

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Check out these past blogs:

“Contentment Our Choice”  & “True Contentment”

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How many of us know people who are really, really good at playing the ‘If Only’ game?  Here are some of the recent ones from lunch today….

• If only….i had made an ‘A’ on my last test.
• If only…i had a boyfriend.
• If only…I had those shoes or that dress.
• If only…I was born into a different family.
• If only…I had more money.

When in reality we’re saying,

‘If only….I wasn’t the person God designed me to be.’

Whoa!

truth time.

---God designed us with perfection. He designed every single detail of our lives.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.   ~Psalm 139.13

---God designed us to long for something beyond our temporary desires. He designed us to want to know Him personally.

…He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. ~Ecclesiastes 3:11

---God designed us to have the best life found in Him, not in the ‘if onlys’ we think we need.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. ~John 10:10

I can not even begin to express how much I’m enjoying my senior year, living in the dorms, and, most of all, the time I get to spend with girls. But as I get to spend more and more time with girls it’s heartbreaking to see the amount of discontentment we can dwell in. It’s like the same commercials rolling through---the same wants and desires, the same wants and desires, the same wants and desires.

Yet when they finally get it. When they finally understand where true contentment and fulfillment can come from---it’s always worth it!

…the free gift from God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.    ~Romans 6:23