Role Models
Daily musings :-)
I have several role models in my life. Some of them are all around role models, and some I want to have a certain trait or maybe even a talent they have.
I also am (hopefully) my kid's first role model. There is a lot of pressure in that when you think about it. To be the one someone looks to, to figure out how to behave, make decisions, think, react, believe, etc.
So today, I was thinking about the people I consider role models, Moms who have paved the way and gone before me. Christian women who have struggled and still struggle with the same things I face, friends who have been and are going through the same issues as me, and even some famous people tend to be role models for me (only really good ones though!)
I think of my pastor's wife. She's raised children for years. She's even adopted two of her kiddos. She's done the school thing, she's done the home school thing, she volunteers, she teaches at co-op, she teaches studies at church, and man can she cook and create in the kitchen. I have a friend who is strong in every way. She faces adversity and fights back with truth. She withstands trials and tribulations and is always encouraging others and soaking up all the wisdom she can get from God. And she is not afraid to get her hands dirty and work hard, especially when she thinks it can be a blessing to someone else. My mother-in-law is always reading and studying and is excited to share what she is learning. She is continually pursuing her relationship with Jesus and her relationship with her husband and her family. Even celebrities like Candace Cameron Bure who is out promoting her new book Balancing It All. She isn't afraid to lay out her priorities and vocally put God first, and then her husband before herself. I've seen her get a bit of negative responses from her saying that she submits to her husband because the Bible tells her to.
These are just a few of my role models. Let me rephrase that, these are a few of my POSITIVE role models. Then we get into the not so good ones.
Like my need for acceptance among certain circles. Those friends that I long to think I'm cool (a problem I never shook from back in school). The role models that make me feel like I need to look a certain way, or do certain things, or put certain things as priorities over God. Just every once in a while, right? You can't be on point all the time....
Yeah I've got those role models going on, too. But having said all of this, trying to be like all these different people, I'm come to realize that its all crazy! Haha
Its crazy to try to be like someone else. I can't be the kind of Mom someone else is. I have my own style, and my kids are not their kids. I can't keep my house in the same order as someone else. I have a different schedule, different priorities (although don't get me wrong, I can be doing a lot better than I am at housework...that's my weak spot!) I can't do the same kind of ministry someone else does. I may not have the same spiritual gifts, and God may want me doing something else.
Ultimately, I can't be like anyone else. We are all flawed, we are all sinners, we all get it wrong. I am supposed to try to be like Jesus. It sounds like the church answer, and so what! It is a church answer because I don't know about your church, but mine gives truth from the Word of God. We are to be like our Jesus. As far as role models go, who can be better???
Having earthly role models is not wrong! God intertwines us in other people's lives for a reason! If you see a quality or trait of Jesus in someone else, great! Maybe they can give you ideas on practical ways to be more like Jesus! Just don't compare yourselves to others. You'll always fall short, and so will they.
So I cherish the people in my life who inspire me to be more like Jesus. Any my prayer is that when you spend time with me, you'll see Jesus shine through, too :-)
Candi
I have several role models in my life. Some of them are all around role models, and some I want to have a certain trait or maybe even a talent they have.
I also am (hopefully) my kid's first role model. There is a lot of pressure in that when you think about it. To be the one someone looks to, to figure out how to behave, make decisions, think, react, believe, etc.
So today, I was thinking about the people I consider role models, Moms who have paved the way and gone before me. Christian women who have struggled and still struggle with the same things I face, friends who have been and are going through the same issues as me, and even some famous people tend to be role models for me (only really good ones though!)
I think of my pastor's wife. She's raised children for years. She's even adopted two of her kiddos. She's done the school thing, she's done the home school thing, she volunteers, she teaches at co-op, she teaches studies at church, and man can she cook and create in the kitchen. I have a friend who is strong in every way. She faces adversity and fights back with truth. She withstands trials and tribulations and is always encouraging others and soaking up all the wisdom she can get from God. And she is not afraid to get her hands dirty and work hard, especially when she thinks it can be a blessing to someone else. My mother-in-law is always reading and studying and is excited to share what she is learning. She is continually pursuing her relationship with Jesus and her relationship with her husband and her family. Even celebrities like Candace Cameron Bure who is out promoting her new book Balancing It All. She isn't afraid to lay out her priorities and vocally put God first, and then her husband before herself. I've seen her get a bit of negative responses from her saying that she submits to her husband because the Bible tells her to.
These are just a few of my role models. Let me rephrase that, these are a few of my POSITIVE role models. Then we get into the not so good ones.
Like my need for acceptance among certain circles. Those friends that I long to think I'm cool (a problem I never shook from back in school). The role models that make me feel like I need to look a certain way, or do certain things, or put certain things as priorities over God. Just every once in a while, right? You can't be on point all the time....
Yeah I've got those role models going on, too. But having said all of this, trying to be like all these different people, I'm come to realize that its all crazy! Haha
Its crazy to try to be like someone else. I can't be the kind of Mom someone else is. I have my own style, and my kids are not their kids. I can't keep my house in the same order as someone else. I have a different schedule, different priorities (although don't get me wrong, I can be doing a lot better than I am at housework...that's my weak spot!) I can't do the same kind of ministry someone else does. I may not have the same spiritual gifts, and God may want me doing something else.
Ultimately, I can't be like anyone else. We are all flawed, we are all sinners, we all get it wrong. I am supposed to try to be like Jesus. It sounds like the church answer, and so what! It is a church answer because I don't know about your church, but mine gives truth from the Word of God. We are to be like our Jesus. As far as role models go, who can be better???
Having earthly role models is not wrong! God intertwines us in other people's lives for a reason! If you see a quality or trait of Jesus in someone else, great! Maybe they can give you ideas on practical ways to be more like Jesus! Just don't compare yourselves to others. You'll always fall short, and so will they.
So I cherish the people in my life who inspire me to be more like Jesus. Any my prayer is that when you spend time with me, you'll see Jesus shine through, too :-)
Candi
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