Comments on: MAKING PEACE WITH PROVERBS 31 http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/ Sat, 19 Aug 2017 21:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Caroline Grace http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/#comment-2219 Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:49:00 +0000 http://completelycaroline.com/?p=1644#comment-2219 Marianne, I can SO relate to you! I never quite fit the mold, either (still don’t). I’m excited to meet you at the conference this year. :)

]]> By: Caroline Grace http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/#comment-2218 Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:44:00 +0000 http://completelycaroline.com/?p=1644#comment-2218 Yeah, Jessi’s talk was so great! I really need to listen to it again. Maybe a few times. :)

]]> By: Caroline Grace http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/#comment-2217 Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:43:00 +0000 http://completelycaroline.com/?p=1644#comment-2217 Thank you, Sarah! I’m so glad the post resonated with you. I think this whole work/family balance is SO hard, especially (it seems) for girls in our generation. It sounds like you married a sweet, supportive guy. :)

]]> By: Sarah http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/#comment-2216 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 02:08:00 +0000 http://completelycaroline.com/?p=1644#comment-2216 I definitely have felt this way before. My mom is totally focused on family life, and I remember feeling that wanting to write or do ministry would make me less than (she never said so, but I felt it). I married this man that wanted to share responsibility, and he would tell me to go upstairs to write or plan while he finished dishes or laundry. It made me so incredibly insecure for a bit, and then we had some great talks that helped me realize my heart is the main thing, not the way it looks for our family. My priorities need to be in the right place, and my family should not suffer, but man, it’s a great realization to be able to do what I feel God’s called me to do (which INCLUDES mommying and being a wife and such).

Woah. Long comment. I just loved what you said :)

]]> By: AshleyWifey http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/#comment-2215 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:33:00 +0000 http://completelycaroline.com/?p=1644#comment-2215 You are sweet. Hearing Jessi’s talk really helped me make peace with proverbs 31 woman too.

]]> By: Marianne @White Peach Potter http://completelycaroline.com/making-peace-with-proverbs-31/#comment-2213 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:14:00 +0000 http://completelycaroline.com/?p=1644#comment-2213 This has me so excited to attend the conference this year! I can’t wait to learn from all of the Godly women that will be there.

Caroline, this post is so great. As a somewhat counter culture youth I heard the phrase “well, er, you just march the beat of your own drum. don’t you…?” from youth leaders all the time (I was an artist, my hair was cropped & dyed a different color each month, I rolled my eyes when they took us to DC Talk concerts, talked way too much and way too openly, and lots of other things they didn’t quite know how to respond to from a girl). Proverbs 31 was a complicated matter to me for years. I WANTED to be that woman, but it wasn’t taught to me in an individualized way that fit who God had made me to be. I didn’t fit a mold, and it led to many frustrated years of trying to squeeze into a hole that wasn’t me.

Anyway – I’ve since come to love it after it was framed completely differently to me as an adult – that God has molded me and will use me just as I am, and that I CAN be strong and independent and also glorify Him at the same time :) I’m not a mom (yet? ever? We don’t know yet) but I’m hoping to find inspiration from Prov. 31 through that as well if we decide to go that direction someday.

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