The current stir in this little heart of mine...

      Alas, it has been quite some time since my last "blog post"...  I am finding my heart at this moment being stirred.  So I am going to write.  
      I am overcome with gratitude.  I am being surrounded by women who love Jesus; who are passionate about Him.  I feel completely unworthy to be able to walk behind them and follow their lead as they follow the King.  I am surrounded by women who are wise, humble, caring, and full of faith!  It is so genuine that my heart screams for it.  I get glimpses and tastes of walking the path to Christ in their way and I yearn for it even more.
       Maybe this is exactly what the Bible meant?  "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works" (Hebrews 10:24) or "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another" (Proverbs 27:17).  I am amazed at how prideful I have been/am.  Why would I not cling to these women and soak up every ounce of wisdom they have to offer me?  
        Their joy is contagious.  The love they have for the savior is not brand new.  It is weathered like a great book that is picked up and read over and over again.  It is deep and real.  The love is brought on by a continual experience of knowing, trusting, and obeying God.  I want that so much.  
        God is so.... (wait for it, you will be shocked).... WISE!!  In Titus, doesn't He speak through Paul on this very thing?  "Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.  They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled." (Titus 2:3-5) 
         He knows my need!  It's not easy to always love my husband.  It's not easy to be self controlled and kind while loving my kids, let alone do it joyfully while growing in Christ.  I need these women in my life! And this is my bit, to say that I am so grateful for every single one of them.  
        Women, I love you.  Thank you for spurring me on towards the great Love.  Even if while you read this you think "surely she doesn't mean me," I am telling you now.  Yes.  I mean you too.  Thank you.