Please don't panic! Gina is setting at her desk typing this blog! But it dawned on me this morning- That Gina is missing. As I think back on what I used to be, the things that used to make me excited, the things I used to do. I am not that person anymore. I am not the happy go lucky, where's the party , girl I used to be. Maybe it is life and growing up that has changed me. And maybe those things still exsist just in different ways. Now- I am a wife, mom, a Family Connection Pastor, a friend, a daughter, a sister... well you get that idea.

The thing that bothers me is this- sometimes i get so caught up in all those things, I don't know who I am. I don't know what things I want to do anymore. I was reading some prayer request this morning of friends, and thinking we all struggle with "who we are" we constantly are changing the circumstances of our lives- and it changes the dynamics of our relationships.


For instance- do you remember when you went from being single to married? we had to learn to live together, deal with each other on a more intimate level, to comprise. We had to adjust who we were to find out who we were in this new area of our life.

Or how about that day you became a parent? How did that effect your marriage, or perspective of who you were?

Then the day comes that you have a house full of kids ( toddlers, teenagers, etc..) and the rules change again. Your identity seems to change with each passing circumstance. we struggle as women to keep up with all that we have to do. We struggle with the question "who are we?" ( maybe this is just me, and everyone else has this figured out, in that case, please send me an email with the answers!)

We were made in the image of God. That idea I have heard a million times growing up, but i have been studing it a little closer lately. To get the whole image of God, he created BOTH male and female.  He created us ( women) in his image, to portray him. ( I am not saying God is woman- I have read The Shack and loved it but that is not what this is about) But we were created for a purpose. We get so overwhelmed with the everydayness of our task- cleaning house, laundry, cooking, taking care of kids,making beds. That we forget who we are. We are Women of Worth, made for a purpose that only we can do. I know some of you are right in the midst of being up all night with a new little one, or cleaning the house after your toddlers ran through for the 10th time today. This is the purpose and the time God created you for.

So even though Gina is missing- I know that I am doing what God called me to do. Here in my corner of the earth. Someday I will have to redefine who I am all over again. The house will be empty, and I once again will set and look in the mirror and say "who am I?" the good news- I will still be the woman God created me to be in that momebn

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