CELEBRATE WHO YOU ARE

Ever thought you were just weird and no one quite understands who you really are? What about a hobby, that if you had the time and money, you would pursue it as a possible career for yourself? Or how about that thing/object that puts you in another place whenever you interact with it? If those questions stirred up the innermost parts of you, learn to celebrate who are no matter how weird or odd people may assume that you are.

Mothers often take on a chaotic role and become too consumed as the person incharge of the household demands. Too often, they forget about who they were before they became a wife, girlfriend or mother. I know, I know...I can hear you saying to me,..."You just don't know all the things I have to do day in and day out for my family"......or how about, "They can't survive a hour without me". If this sounds like you, get ready to embrace a new you after reading this.

Let's further dissect this celebration a bit further: I enjoy reading all kinds of books. I steal away weekly from my career and my children and take my blankey, journal, nice cup of joe (coffee) and the book of my choice and go to different designations and get lost in the world of reading. I recognize everyone is not a bookworm like myself. Try to go see a FREE admission to a live jazz band, visit your local art museums and coffee shops, bookstores, and now that its summer time, talk a long walk along the beach and meditate on how good God has been to you. Have a picnic lunch also at the beach or take a mile long bike ride, bring your skates too. Invite others that also enjoy your hobby and start a weekly or monthly group to display new and upcoming progress or events. Take up free classes at the local art supplies stores for hobbies such as knitting and painting. Whatever makes you happy, do it or bring it with you to those places.

Want to make a career out of your hobby? Visit your local library and research your hobby and learn the history of your hobby and see what lessons those before you learned about it as well. Surf the web on your hobby and make notes of other pros and cons that weren't listed in some of the older books at the library. Read the consumer comments below the product of whatever your hobby consists of. For example, if you like freelance photography and you are interested in buying a camaera, read the comments of other camera consumers that the online stores provide potential customers with.

Most women that have dealt with domestic violence have had to put a hold on their dreams, hobbies and goals in pursuit of the happiness of their abusive partner. NO MORE ladies!!! Get out and enjoy life and CELEBRATE WHO YOU ARE! If you don't, no one else will care about what interests you outside of your family life. Victims, it may have been awhile, but recall what makes you happy deep down inside and began to reach out to it again. Survivors, now that you are well on your road of freedom so to speak, no more excuses, get busy celebrating who you are!

Read Proverbs 31 the chapter about the virtuous woman of God. She was a great wife, mother and a wonderful and skillful woman outside of her family. So you see, long before me and you were born, God created women to be able to multi-task.....think about it, it almost comes naturally to do for some of us...LOL


HELP BREAK THE SILENCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE