tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852038198572196516.post6185161025235932464..comments2024-01-30T18:24:17.010-08:00Comments on FullFill Magazine: Heroic AuthenticityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852038198572196516.post-12468315465747436452012-01-06T06:47:05.546-08:002012-01-06T06:47:05.546-08:00Oh my goodness Rachel...I wanted to laugh and cry ...Oh my goodness Rachel...I wanted to laugh and cry after I read this. Laugh because I have all of those very same books and magazines in my house!!! How to be a better housekeeper, mother, wife, writer, professional...how to balance it ALL and feel peaceful in the midst...<br /><br />sigh...none of it seems to work...How quickly we think we are the only ones feeling this way! <br /><br />I totally agree... we need to strip off the facade...be genuine...it's what I try to do in my own blogging, writing and fellowshipping...it's definitely a work in progress...<br /><br />All those books and magazines often do is make us feel like we can do it all ourselves...a wonderful mom stood up at my MOPS group and talked yesterday, she started out by saying..."I feel as if I have nothing to say to you, because I am truly nothing without God.." <br /><br />wow. not if that isn't the truth! <br /><br />Thanks for your words.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14643542809590522666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852038198572196516.post-8468570219643768652011-12-19T18:00:18.906-08:002011-12-19T18:00:18.906-08:00Perfect timing. I just shared some very "rea...Perfect timing. I just shared some very "real" stuff with my woman's Sunday school class yesterday. Today, I was wondering if I should have. (Worrying - do they think less of me now?) I am normally pretty honest, open and vulnerable in leading - but for some reason I was feeling insecure after yesterday's class. Your article was a word of affirmation from God to keep being real - not just sharing victories, but struggles and defeats as well... cause that's real life! Thank you.Peggi Tustanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11553997220721244166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852038198572196516.post-42511744508701356252011-12-19T16:52:41.311-08:002011-12-19T16:52:41.311-08:00Thanks for the solid word, Rachel. my thinking cha...Thanks for the solid word, Rachel. my thinking changed when I turned 40. In my 20s and 30s, I felt like I was competing with the women around me: decorating my house, raising my kids, volunteering, etc. I was quite capable, but I never felt like I measured up.<br /><br />Then I decided to be happy with my strengths and ask for help in my weak areas. I'm not artsy AT ALL, but I have good technical skills. I learned to be content with the person God created me to be, and stopped comparing myself to other women.<br /><br />Now that I'm on the heels of 50, I cringe at all the time I wasted striving to be somebody I wasn't. Praise God for the truth of Ps 18:19,<br /> <br /><i>He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.</i>Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823919278259760743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852038198572196516.post-45475201196115358512011-12-19T14:55:05.819-08:002011-12-19T14:55:05.819-08:00Rachel, I needed to hear your words in my heart as...Rachel, I needed to hear your words in my heart as I read them. I have always been trying to be bigger, better, always pushing to be all things for all people, in an ever busier world. As a MOPS mentor mom, I need to be more genuine with my moms, to show them that I too have difficult days even now as a retired grandma, and that I still slip and fall as a Christian. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!Sherrey Meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04715466245851050537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-852038198572196516.post-13518093272828510282011-12-18T22:48:26.544-08:002011-12-18T22:48:26.544-08:00Oh thank you, thank you for this! I just spent a w...Oh thank you, thank you for this! I just spent a week with two young girls I'm mentoring and nearly all of their questions revolved around how they were looking, how others would perceive their outfit or hair style and - of course, inevitable - boys. Amazing how that type of superficiality and insecurity rubs off in close quarters!<br />I wish you and I could sit down after all of that for some authentic conversation. But today, this blog is enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com