Growing pains...

Did you ever wonder why you either look back at your teenage years and either shudder or sigh with nostalgia? I'm one of the ones who shudders. Would I go back? No. They weren't that horrible but who wants to live with that kind of confusion, tension, embarrassment and chaos?

The amusing thing is, I've discovered that your spiritual life also goes through stages. I've hit the teenage years...
I honestly feel like I am experiencing spiritual and mental growing pains. It hurts... nothing fits properly and I am neither child nor man. It sux.

Wild at heart...

I've just finished reading the book by John Eldrige called 'Wild at heart'. If you're a Christian bloke - read it. If you're a Christian chick - read it. AS a chick you might not like it at it does away with the image of the 'nice Christian guy'... but that's not what i'm here to talk about. Read the book for yourself and let me know what you think.

I want to know where the book is that tells us how to be real women! Have a look at the chicks in scripture... a close look. Are they really what we paint them to be? Subserviant, docile, eager to please... a dutiful house wife... most guys, well some guys anyway, will will cheer 'here here!'. Or do we have to other extreme, what the world would have us be. Either a ball busting, control freak, type A, wanna be bloke who scares the crap out of most people, or a bikini clad, rocket scientist and enjoys running half naked in the surf while finding the cure for cancer?

I don't know what the answer is yet, but I'm not particularly interested in any of these models... there must be more to being a woman of God...