Living Alone

        "You've begun to move forward, to make changes, to recognize the incredible woman you are and become more of who God created you to be. And the enemy would love nothing more than to convince you it's too much, you can't do it, there's not enough time.....the list is endless. But it's not true, dear friend, You can change. You can grow. You already have-don't let anything stand in your way."-Holley Gerth

        "Are you ready to take the next step? You can do this, sweet girl. With Him. In His Power. That power that created the world, spoke the stars into place, spend the sea from one shore to the another. That's the power that lives in you."-Holley Gerth

       Okay, those were just two simple quotes that I wanted to write down somewhere so I wrote them down on this entry. The real reason for this entry is because I woke up thinking about what it meant to really live alone at 6:00 am on a Sunday morning. My mind never stops. I swear. I was was thinking about "living alone" as I good thing too. Just thought I would throw that out so I don't scare anyone in any way.
        My mind went straight to Proverbs 31, the Godly woman chapter, and I started to think about that but then again when don't I think about that chapter. It is one that I probably simply have memorized or will soon. Not word for word but the concepts I do. I got to thinking, "It really helps for a woman to live alone." You might be thinking that that is something strange to be thinking about but here is my outlook on that.
        Unlike guys, where all they have to learn is how to lead and provide for a family and I'm not saying that lightly at all. Us, women, have to learn how to be a Keeper of the household. We have to learn how to keep to all together when the husband is out providing for the family. What better way to do that then to live on your own, in your own house, having to make your own meals and clean up your own mess, and so on. When you really think about it if you are living on your own as a women for how ever many years, it will just make you that much better as a wife because you know what you have done wrong personally for you so you don't want to make that same mistake for your family.
         Now I know when you get married you have to adjust to living with another person and then people if you plan on having children but it gets you at a good starting place in life. If you're like me, where you are living by yourself at all times and then working with children all the time, then you pretty much have everything down. You just need to bring the two together somehow. It also should hit a women that is living by herself that if she cares enough about herself and the way she is living by herself, then how much more will she care about the rest of her family in the future. If she is neat and tidy by herself, then she will try to be that but if she is so so on her cleaning then she knows she needs to do better when she has children and is married.
          I think the church study that I took this past Fall called "Called to be a Keeper" really helped me see some of these things but they are now just clicking together for me. Yes, it does take me awhile to put things together like these. As single women, we might think we are off the hook, when really we aren't. We are really on the hook because if a lot of people come over to your house to hang out or whatever and they see how you live that could say a lot about your personality and style. Right now, my apartment has a lot of books and bears in it.
           All this to say that, as women, we should be living the Proverbs 31 chapter everyday of our lives even as single women. If not living it just yet because we don't have that guy in our life, then at least let people see that we are striving to be that "prefect" wife that God has called us to be. Notice I put the word perfect in quotations because there is no such thing as a prefect wife. We don't need a guy or a certain person in our lives to live out how God created us to be. We should be that way for God and not for man.