Flourish

This is a blog for women.  Young and young-ish women.

So pour yourself some coffee, put on pandora and your comfy jeans and pull up chair.  Let's chat.

This blog is for women...

...who need encouragement.
...who have a dark past.

...who need some real relationships.

...who are hungry for authenticity and vulnerability.

...who are ready to DO SOMETHING.

...who have days where they are clear-headed and productive.

...who have days when their brain is mush and they can't even spell J-E-S-U-S!

Women who want to flourish.

Let's face it, we are modern.  We are Single. Married. Divorced. Re-married. Widowed at an early age. We come from all over the place. We have married parents. Divorced parents. Re-married parents.  Widowed parents.  We are High school drop outs.  Valedictorians of our college classes.  Tattooed, pierced and others who are terrified of needles! Those who like to make everything homemade and those who wouldn't know a spatula from a spoon.  Those who love love and those who think love is too complicated. Some who could tell you who wrote Leviticus and those who don't know what Leviticus is. We are different in many ways.

But when it all boils down to it, in some ways we are very similar.  We, as women, want to be known. Heard. Loved. Godly. Most of us want to be good or great at what we do.  Whether its braiding hair every morning or dealing with a hard patient or client you work with, we want to be good.  We want to develop our relationships. our careers. our marriage. our health. our kids. our ideas. our dreams.  

So why don't we? Why are we comfortable in our not-developing-ness?

Here's my thought....

The Lord has been very sweet to me over the last few weeks.  And by sweet, I mean, He created time many moons ago so that all things would not happen at once.  Over the past 3 years, I have prayed for a vision.  A movement.  A challenge.  To make HIS name great among the women in Roanoke.  

So here is what the Lord has laid on my heart.  A movement... 

To be equipped.  To unleash.  To flourish.

To be equipped

To come together and dig into God's word together. To be purposeful with our studies and relationships.  To learn from His word and each other.  To understand our purpose and then go do what He says...   

 

What would this look like?  If we did what God's word said.

  

In your jobs. marriage. aloneness. ministry. parenting. play. joy. sadness. grief. 

In the Church.

“You see. We have become so familiar with God yet so unaware of Him. We make the mysterious mundane. We construct careful reasons for our rules and sensible whys for our behavior. All the while our soul is longing for a richer experience-one that allows us to escape the limits of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell and journey to a place of wild, wonder, and passion.” ~ What Happens When Women Say Yes to God  

I think if we did what God's word said, it would mean...




To Unleash

To be passionate about what the Lord has told you in His word, that you can't help but be serving.  
You know when that song comes on and you can't help but dance or tap or hum or sing.  That is what God's word can do to our hearts...get us moving.
What makes your heart beat? Makes you want to get up in the morning?  What circumstance is someone in that breaks your heart?  Dont wait...be unleashed and go serve, minister!! Take what you have been equipped to do and do it! 

If you are passionate about the widow, go...do.
If you are passionate about the orphan, go....do.
If you are passionate about the drunk, go....do.
If you are passionate about the homeless. the hungry. the wealthy.  the coworker. the housewife. the lonely.  the government.  the broken marriage. the women who had an abortion.  the Gospel.  the single mom.  

BE UNLEASHED.  We want to come with you...We come to help and learn from your passion....
so that we may all...


To Flourish

flour·ish  

Verb  Grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way

Noun A bold or extravagant gesture or action, made esp. to attract the attention of others.

When we aren't developing/growing in our relationship with the Lord, we are stagnant.  Stagnant is not growing. It's still. Without movement. Without boldness. No one is hearing about God's grace and 
AWESOMENESS when we are stagnant.  

Let's flourish.  Let's be developing.  Let's be bold. 

I think about the Bride so often.  I'm super passionate about her. She should flourish. Develop. Be bold to attract the attention of others.  

There is more....stay tuned...