Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Lady of Security- My daddy issues

I know what your think! Nah honestly i dont, for those who read one of the notes in search of a father well this is a continuation and sort of different look of the note....

I woke up that morning with no joy or peace in my heart, the events of the past week were nothing to write home about, i felt ashamed,angry and couldnt stand myself...questions of does God still love me? How does he view me now? What is wrong with me! Dint i know better again what was i thinking! Its hard asking yourself all this questions without getting any answers kinda makes it worse actually......

Lets give him a name and call him ...'peter, so peter and i were friends very close but not dating or anything we enjoyed each others company nothing was demanded from either of us and it was just good having someone that i could talk to, you know the kinda guy where no strings are attached just great,hang out and all...so we had been "hanging out for a couple of months and it was great until this day we were at a party and decided to crash at his place. I mean we had been around each other for sometime and the boundaries were clear but like they say sometimes its the lack of opportunity that holds us from doing somethings so this was an opportunity and as we were watching this love story there was tight hugging and next thing i was kissing him. I stopped at some point and started crying and telling him how wrong it was and that it should never happen again.After a weeks it happened again and i dint have anything to yell about coz clearly i would look dumb saying one thing and totally doing something different. So i decided i would do it like a man you know with no feelings or emotions besides wasnt anything just harmless friendship with benefits right??

We watch a lot of talk shows especially american ones the likes of tyra banks and oprah and see alot of women come to the show and air their family issues on tv and i know like me most of us have vowed never ever! Even thought that this women were weak you know so what if your daddy abused you when you were a child life starts again! So what if you never met your daddy deal with it! So what if your daddy said you will never amount to anything! So what if your daddy was polygamus, So what if your daddy never loved you! So what this and that....yea they are pretty lame so we think.....How do you view God?

So one day peter asks me do you think your dad loves you? Looked him straight in the eye and told him i wasnt going to have that discussion with him, he apologised and asked again this time thinking he was framing it better so he asked do you know your dad loves you? I just started weeping....i burst out of the room and i came face to the reality that honestly i couldnt answer that question! I mean tell me how many of our african fathers tell us what they think of us. How many fathers tell their kids of how proud they are of them? I loved my father and honesty speaking every person i dated had to have some characteristics of him....problem is same way i viewed my father is the same way i viewed God! I just dint know how or what he thought of me, i went through life trying to fill that love with different people...had crazy expectations in the relationships i was in. Women all over the world want one thing Security,the desire to be cherished and loved and accepted. And if one dint experience this with their father chances are they will be looking for it somewhere else...or we will have the "i can do it like a man " bunch of women, so they work hard climb the cooperate ladder and mostly referred to as the lady of terror dont be fooled all that is just a face yes we can put it on so well but deep down we long to be secure he will never leave you nor forsake you,this is my favorate verse in the bible but it never made sense until that sunday when i couldnt stop weeping and praying and finally made the drive to my parents house....i was ready to either have it all or loose it all, i was at a point where if my dad and i dint resolve things that happened in the past i just would continue being afraid, not committing,always trying to find fault in a relationship and taking an exit, never opening my heart to really accept being loved and to love back....it was either my relationship with my father or my relationship with my God because if thats how i viewed him then how will i ever trust him how would i trust God that he loved me and cared for and wanted the best for me. I was tired of being the man in my relationships always trying to call the shots,always having unrealistic expectations in relationships,always wanting to be affirmed that i was loved and cared for....

As i prayed for God's favour that day i talked to dad, about my relationship with him,with my other siblings,his relationship with my mother and all of us as a family.....we talked bout my insecurities my view of God, bout my relationship with men and my fears......its like i was finally saying everything that was bottled inside me and this time the right person was listening. He listened, explained where he need to,apologised,assured his love to me and prayed for me. Not in a million years did i ever thought it would go the way it did.......

Was watching how i met your mother and barney was saying. Wat for it.........yea that he loved bimbos coz they had so much daddy issues so they were easy to sleep with and do whatever since the bimbo was accepting anything that came along to find the daddy they never had.

abraham's daughter

Friday, April 2, 2010

A lady of faith and Virtue

Faith its defination always puzzles me. Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see....honestly speaking sometimes i think this is just crazy! But then i fail to explain how i can pray and believe for something and it actually happens and comes true! So my intelligent question is what do i have to loose? So ye beautiful women please make me understand why we pray and believe God for so many big things in our lives you know the promotion at work, our health, more salary,that beautiful house weve been eyeing and scholarship those fees etc but the one thing that we secretly and ceasingly pray for but dont really believe God is really interested in that part of our lives.

I remember many are the time i prayed and told God you can handle all this but the relationship bit you know am good at this so please let me do my thing.....and girls dint i do many stupid things! Its funny how we panic when we find ourselves living in make-sparse estates or going to male sparse churches ha ha ha. Believe you me am laughing at myself just thinking of how i used to complain that our church had no potential men to get married to....

There are so many things women have done inorder to get a man, visited different churches,gone to retreats,travelled to back and forth in different towns,joined a choir and so many other stuff. Some which ive done my self and honestly after this so called relationships dint work out all i felt was drained drained and more drained! Girls if there is one thing am learning right now is that God does not need our clever chance rendezvous to give us a man. Same way we pray about all things we want in our lives we should pray for relationships with other people....


God knows the desires of your heart and yes the amount little piece of faith i have am believing that even if your in the jungle God is not limited by your circumstances and geographical location he knows your desires and he will bring them into accomplishment...recent studies have shown that the older a woman get the less preference and demands on the life partner becames....thats why we find women in their late twenties and early thirties settling not only for what God had not planned for them but their expectations as well. Check out this example.

20yrs old
-a godly man
-does not drink alcohol or smoke
-kind and gentle
-honest.

25 years old
-a godly man
-only drinks and smokes casually
-kind

29-35 years old
-at least goes to church
-drink and smoke casually
-can put up with me.

God dint create us to settle he created us to get the best which is him then the second best the man he chooses for us. So please let us not hesitate to live life dont pass opportunities to travel and go for missions just cause you think life will pass you by no God will come through at his appointed time...lets soak our energies in the things of God.

Lady of virtue.....

What is the one thing that you love about your body....wait for it..my hips! Oh how i love them! ...now this is me imagining them 30 years from now....i know not a pretty picture at all! Thing is if i dude is to like what he sees in my outward appearance and 30years from now it fades what next? So does this mean that when am ugly i wont get married or when my beauty fades i will no longer be loved? No, thats why as women we are called to cultivate our inner beauty....please indulge me.

I remember sometime back whenever i would go to a wedding i would check out the bride and honestly some i would conclude were not as preety but later on i would get to know the bride and man would i swallow whateter comment i had made about them i found them to have qualities to die for kindness,gentleness,good listeners etc am happy to say that some are good friends till today and i draw and learn so much from them.

When you read proverbs 31 you think perfection i think opportunity...how lucky are we as women that God allowed solomon to put this wise characteristics down i mean there they are plain in black and white this the way a christian or any woman for that matter should carry themselves!

So am taking a challenge this month am praying and exersing provers 31:1 a wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies....lets dig up info on rubies,lets pray that God will develop this character in us that we will find ourselves worth.

For some of us life hasnt been so fair, am talking about rape,abusive relationships,angry parents and spouses,taken advantage of by friends and so many other things which had yielded to insecurity,jealousy,envy,selfishness,pity,anger and lack of self esteem and lack of self worth. I weep when i think of such things but i thank my God in heaven who is merciful and loving to us. My dear God can heal your pain, he can take it all away and give you a new lease of life. Am a testimony of what lack of self esteem can do to a person and believe me its not something i would wish any of you to go through....i thank God ive found my worth in christ and everyday he gives me a bucket full of love to share,my God wants the best for you just let him heal your pain you will not forget but you will forgive. Let us be ladies of virtue......

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.