What’s it like to be you?
This journey with ya’ll and “The Help” has opened my eyes to many things in my life as a woman who has a High Calling for the Kingdom. Throughout this movie/book there is a constant theme of “help” in which boundaries, culture, and social status lines become blurred as women step out and learn about one another through sharing of their personal experiences. As women get to know one another and ask the question either verbally or silently, “What’s it like to be you?” we begin to see stories and truth revealed in them in ways we might have expected.
So for a final wrap up, that’s what I would like to ask YOU: “what’s it like to be you?”
Once I have your responses collected I would love to share these on my blog. If you would like to share with me but not have it published in the blog please let me know, otherwise I will assume it will be ok. I would love for all of us women warriors rally at the well and have a chance to share with one another what it’s like to be us, as in YOU specifically…It’s refreshing to have someone ask about you every once in awhile.
Also, below are some of the quotes I have pulled out from the book/movie for you to reflect on and how it speaks to your soul. Please take some time to read each one and really feel how they touch you and why they touch you as a Lady of THE Court.
Blessings on you my sisters and thank you for journeying with me in this.
Aibileen Clark: “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
Charlotte Phelan: “Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family.”
“Courage: Daring to do what is right in spite of the weakness in our flesh.”
Eugenia 'Skeeter' Phelan: “You said to write about what disturbs me, particularly if it bothers no one else”
“What if you don’t like what I got to say about white people?” –Aibileen to Constantine
“Go find your life, Miss Skeeter.”
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
'The Help"-Stop Swimming
Ladies-
May the Lord show favor to you today..
SIDENOTE: I'm going to be sending e-vites out soon for the coming to together for 'The Help' fellowship. I would encourage all of you to keep reading (SUCH A GOOD Book) or go treat yourself (yes, think about yourself for a change) and have a gal night out to see the movie before you come. It's inspirational lemme tell ya ;)
Reflections from chapters 13-16
“…I mean in life. What do you want?” “I want to be a writer, a journalist, maybe a novelist, maybe both…” (pg. 200)
“Show me how to teach Baby Girl to be kind, to love herself; to love others, while I got time with her… (226)
“You kind, you smart, you important. But growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain;t gone be enough.” (pg. 234)
**Keep mediating on Luke 10:25-41**
This reflection comes from “My Utmost for His Highest” When I read it, it reminded me that we all have dreams and visions of how we want to be used for God, what we all want out of life. As we get these dreams we tend to stand up quick and get going down the road to make “it” happen. We have gifts to me teachers and mentors to those around us, we are compelled to show the love of Jesus to others, they are loved, they are beautiful, they are valued. We are the women prophets who delight in telling other women the truths God sepaks about them…But what about us? Do you know with your heart and head that those truths are meant to for you too, warrior princess.
It’s not about service ladies, it’s not about volunteering, it’s not about pressing on to impact the lives of people even though we are drained, it’s about sitting at our Lord’s feet and “BEING.” I know it seems backwards that in order to be God’s best we must sit at his feet and “BE” instead of what the world says in the words of “Finding Nemo”-“Just keep swimming, swimming…” Stop swimming and rest in the Lord as you go about your day and in that God’s Kingdom comes down to those around us.
Come to the well to rest, to talk, to be with our Lord.
AM I CONVINCED BY CHRIST?
Taken from: My Utmost for His Highest
“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not ...,but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven”-Luke 10:19,20
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don't rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. You never can measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related to Jesus Christ. Keep your relationship right with Him, then whatever circumstances you are in, and whoever you meet day by day, He is pouring rivers of living water through you, and it is of His mercy that He does not let you know it. When once you are rightly related to God by salvation and sanctification, remember that wherever you are, you are put there by God; and by the reaction of your life on the circumstances around you, you will fulfill God's purpose, as long as you keep in the light as God is in the light.
The tendency to-day is to put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who make usefulness their ground of appeal. If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ever lived. The lodestar of the saint is God Him self, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him. All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father. Jesus is bringing many sons to glory.
Spiritual Rythmn: Memorization
Take one verse this week write it out and take it with you everywhere you go.
May the Lord show favor to you today..
SIDENOTE: I'm going to be sending e-vites out soon for the coming to together for 'The Help' fellowship. I would encourage all of you to keep reading (SUCH A GOOD Book) or go treat yourself (yes, think about yourself for a change) and have a gal night out to see the movie before you come. It's inspirational lemme tell ya ;)
Reflections from chapters 13-16
“…I mean in life. What do you want?” “I want to be a writer, a journalist, maybe a novelist, maybe both…” (pg. 200)
“Show me how to teach Baby Girl to be kind, to love herself; to love others, while I got time with her… (226)
“You kind, you smart, you important. But growing up and I know, soon, them few words ain;t gone be enough.” (pg. 234)
**Keep mediating on Luke 10:25-41**
This reflection comes from “My Utmost for His Highest” When I read it, it reminded me that we all have dreams and visions of how we want to be used for God, what we all want out of life. As we get these dreams we tend to stand up quick and get going down the road to make “it” happen. We have gifts to me teachers and mentors to those around us, we are compelled to show the love of Jesus to others, they are loved, they are beautiful, they are valued. We are the women prophets who delight in telling other women the truths God sepaks about them…But what about us? Do you know with your heart and head that those truths are meant to for you too, warrior princess.
It’s not about service ladies, it’s not about volunteering, it’s not about pressing on to impact the lives of people even though we are drained, it’s about sitting at our Lord’s feet and “BEING.” I know it seems backwards that in order to be God’s best we must sit at his feet and “BE” instead of what the world says in the words of “Finding Nemo”-“Just keep swimming, swimming…” Stop swimming and rest in the Lord as you go about your day and in that God’s Kingdom comes down to those around us.
Come to the well to rest, to talk, to be with our Lord.
AM I CONVINCED BY CHRIST?
Taken from: My Utmost for His Highest
“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not ...,but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven”-Luke 10:19,20
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don't rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me. The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. You never can measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related to Jesus Christ. Keep your relationship right with Him, then whatever circumstances you are in, and whoever you meet day by day, He is pouring rivers of living water through you, and it is of His mercy that He does not let you know it. When once you are rightly related to God by salvation and sanctification, remember that wherever you are, you are put there by God; and by the reaction of your life on the circumstances around you, you will fulfill God's purpose, as long as you keep in the light as God is in the light.
The tendency to-day is to put the emphasis on service. Beware of the people who make usefulness their ground of appeal. If you make usefulness the test, then Jesus Christ was the greatest failure that ever lived. The lodestar of the saint is God Him self, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that counts, not what we do for Him. All that Our Lord heeds in a man's life is the relationship of worth to His Father. Jesus is bringing many sons to glory.
Spiritual Rythmn: Memorization
Take one verse this week write it out and take it with you everywhere you go.
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