The amazing roles of a woman!

I've been thinking a lot about all the different roles us women have. Honestly how in the world do we do it all?!

Just our own personal lives which involve being a child of God and all that that means.

We are also someone's daughter, possibly a sister, granddaughter, or niece.

We need to make a living in order to feed and clothe ourselves which usually involves a job, career, talent or skill of some sort. Sometimes we must become students in order to accomplish all of this.

We also have our own personal interests and hobbies for which there never seems to be enough time to pursue.

Then we get married and it gets complicated!! Ha ha! What is a wife anyways? I love my husband deeply and want to be his very best friend, his lover, his companion and life journey partner. I want to support him in his passions and interests. I want to know what he thinks, how he thinks and why he thinks I could possibly be capable of being his wife!

There are the mundance chores that are required of us too. They seem so trivial at times but I know that they serve a purpose and that serving is my purpose.

When the kids come along we become mothers! Oh my gosh, if I was full of pride before at how I've held everything together, I am truly humbled now. And that God believes I could contribute anything to these precious beings is beyond me!

Some of us also choose to add the teacher role to our lives, again a humbling and sometimes exsasperating experience!

I think there are times when God is looking upon me with the bar of parenthood in his hand and he is ever so slightly (although it doesn't seem so at the time) raising it just a smidgen just to watch what I will do. Sometimes he smiles.....often he just shakes his head.

And then another role is added to our lives that help us want to achieve even higher accomplishments in all of the above roles. That role is of a friend.

My friends, my true friends, cry with me, laugh with me, spur me on to do better. They sympathize with me but never allow me to wallow too long in the muckiness of life. They celebrate with me. They hug me. They tell me when I've screwed up and when I've done well. My true friends give of themselves unconditionally and expect the same from me, for which I am truly grateful.

Yes we have many roles, all of them important.

All of them require time, effort, patience, love, passion, organization and our utmost attention.

It's through these roles that we feel alive, imporant, needed, loved and most of all a woman and all that that entails.

We are amazing.....truly!