A Woman's Voice

 

Today I had the pleasure of eating lunch with three strong, wise, driven, independent, and beauty women. Each one of these women are special in their own way and each one is talented and unique. Together we make quite a team and can accomplish much. From time to time we meet for lunch to discuss non-work things and to empower each other to keep going. I wish I could bottle the energy from the group and sell it, because I think we could get rich!

I’m a young woman and I enjoy being around mature women who have experienced life so to speak. Titus 2:3-5 tells us that it’s older women who can teach younger women the practical skills to get through life. These women got me to thinking about myself and my future today when we had lunch. If I ever get the opportunity to have children in the future I want my future daughter(s) to have a few character qualities and opportunties that I believe that mold strong women. 

• I want them to know and practice the fruits of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23).
• I want my future daughters to have a voice.
• I want them to grow up to be strong, free thinking and independent women that are not get taken advantage of.
• I want them to have opportunities outside of life within the “normal” realm of their community of where they might be raised.
• I want them to have rules, discipline and consequences within their life.  
• I want them to have an advanced education and value lifelong learning.
• I want them to use their God given talents to serve God and others to the best of their abilities.
• Leave a comment if you can think of others! I might need to add a few more to my wish list for those future daughters.  

Doesn’t every woman want that for her daughter(s)? This is how my family raised me to be. Sometimes I get “the look” or “the comment” that I cannot believe you do that or I would never. I was raised to have a “voice” or “vote” per say when it came to matters. I was raised to think outside the box. I was told that my voice matters because I was good, special and important. I was raised to have an inquisitive mind, to ask questions and “why” if something did not make sense. I learned the value of a work, earning money to have things, and then how to give back to others through service.

I believe my parents did things with intention when they were parenting me and my sister. But I’ve never asked…who knows they might have been parenting us by the skin of the teeth and whatever patience they had at the moment! I believe they both had great examples of strong women within their lives that they modeled their parenting practices after. Whatever they did I believe it worked because I believe that I was molded and shaped into the woman I am today because of their parenting foresight and the experiences they shared with my sister and me. So Mama & Daddy thank you for giving me a voice and molding me into the woman I am today!