1st April

Dear Woman,

Welcome to the month of April…

If I accomplish anything this year so far, my biggest accomplishment would be that I loved God and loved the family that He has given me. After all that’s all that matters in the end love. Not a physical love, or a romantic love, but a self-sacrificing, a wholehearted, self-yielding, and devoted love.

Loving your family is one of the hardest things to do sometimes.

It doesn’t matter if we live in the same house or separately, we as women and girls, who are unmarried are called to love and invest in the families God has given us. We read this over and over in the Bible in chapters like Titus 2, Proverbs 31, 1 Peter 3, Ephesians 5

“For you have been called to live in freedom, dear woman. Don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love” (Galatians 5:13).

Loving our families means a lot more than being friendly or kind to our family members. It means serving, blessing, encouraging, inspiring, challenging, cooking and cleaning for, and working alongside our family members. We can be the bible they read, the extra hand in the kitchen for our moms and the twinkle in our fathers’ eye.

When I explain the kind of lifestyle that my family and I live to friends or extended family, they ask the all too familiar question, “Don’t you have a life?”, or something to that extent.

*sigh* The pressures and demands of the 21st century!

If by “life” you mean parties, drinking, drugs, sex, and exposing my body then no, I don’t have a “life.”

But if you mean coffee, milkshake, chicken and chips, praying, singing and writing, fun time with toddlers, praying time with family, and living for the audience of God, then you bet I have a life!

Dear reader embrace Love this Month…