It is March 13 and I have added another book to my COMPLETED list for 2017! WAY TO GO SHELL! When I moved into my new home in late February, sweet Andrea (my new roommate) had left a darling little book in my windowsill - she’s a gem! It was short and sweet, but packed with good reminders to be GROUNDED in TRUTH and to be a STRONG AND CONFIDENT WOMAN of God.
Here are a few of my FAVORITE quotes from "nice girls don't change the world" by Lynne Hybels (she just happens to be shauna niequist's mama!)
whereas a nice girl tends to live according to the will of others, a good woman has only one goal : to discern and live out the will of God. a good woman knows that her ultimate calling in life is to be part of God’s plan for redeeming all things in this sin-touched world.
I hope you realize how much your family, your friends, your church, your community and this world need YOU. Don’t allow who you truly are to be lost, buried, or devalued. What is in you matters. What is most truly you matters. You have learned lessons, experienced pain, known joys, and gained a perspective nobody else has. You have an answer to the world’s needs that is YOURS ALONE.
…the opposite of a nice girl is not just a good woman, but a downright dangerous woman. a woman who shows up with everything she is and joins the battle against whatever opposes the redeeming work of God in our lives and in the world. a dangerous woman delves deeply into the truth of who she is, grounds herself daily in the healing and empowering love of God, and radically engages with the needs of the world.
Isn’t that SO seriously inspiring. I tend toward being a NICE girl, but I’m working on letting my voice being enough (thanks Amanda) and remembering that the Lord has given me everything I need to be a World Changer…
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