You Make Me Wanna Be Brave

I was sitting in church on Sunday and my ADD kicked in during the song service and I kind of started looking around at my church family around me. Now, in the least creepy way possible, I would say that I was "watching" those around me. Listen, some of you ladies are an inspiration to me. You make me wanna be brave. Some of you have battled through cancer, family tradedy, loss of a child, loss of a husband, difficult battles with raising your families, struggles of all kinds. It is not just the women that I could see, right now I can think of at least a dozen or more women who just LOVE JESUS and in spite of the valleys that HE has walked you through, you are still in Love with the Lord and are a testament to those around you. Please know this, you are impacting eternity...you have impacted me in ways you will never know. On those days when I am down and wonder "Why did you call me to this struggle Lord?" "What are you asking of me?" "What is this working 'for good' in my life?" AND THEN, I look around me once more and I see what the Lord has made of your lives. Some of you lead dozens of women in Bible Study, in godly council, as leaders of youth and children, as mommies of families who are learning to love the Lord...and I think to myself "What if God is helping me become like THAT lady?" I am hoping that someday the Lord will permit me to BE brave rather than just pretending to be. Thank you ladies for shining before me as an example of what I SHOULD be.