Growing up in love can be one of the most challenging
actions. I love seeing a new born baby
cry because she want to feel the warmth of her mother’s touch. She calms as she nestled tightly between
mommy’s breast and forearms and rocked gently.
Then, she matures to a low level of independence, where she wants to
walk without guidance, yet she wants to be hugged and hummed to sleep. She continues to grow and grown and
eventually desires to mimic what she’s witnessed as love between mother and
father or simply man and woman. Only,
one day she wakes up and suddenly feels like she’s been improperly trained
because this “love thing” doesn’t always feel so good and often times seems to
go wrong. Sounds familiar?
What if it could be as easy as when we were babies? That’s a wonderful thought, but it will never
be because we are not babies, we are teenagers, and we are not college
students: We are women and just like our bodies mature, our minds, emotions,
and our love must mature. The body
matures naturally, but the rest of our maturity takes effort. We must be intentional about our mental and
emotional development and open ourselves to the wisdom of other women with
loving spirits to help guide us. That
woman may be your mother, a mentor, a friend, or even a role model. It really
doesn’t matter. What matters is that we
realize even as grown women we need someone in which to glean knowledge to help
us grow wiser and more loving with time.
We must also be willing to share what we’ve learned with
other women, young and old, who are not at the level of maturity in which we’ve
reached. The mind and heart are so
sensitive that this work cannot be taken lightly. We must be handled with
velvet gloves and we should be careful to do the same when helping others reach
higher ground. It’s every woman’s
responsibility to help another sister know true love, IF she knows it. It’s every woman’s responsibility to share
the wisdom and knowledge with other women, IF she has is. It’s every woman’s responsibility to first
examine herself to determine if she should share anything yet or just keep
learning as to not cause more harm to other women than is already done. No matter which woman you are, to do what’s best
for the next woman is to be your sister’s keeper; and, that’s the woman’s
responsibility.
My prayer today is that you commit to your own personal
development and growth. Know that no
matter what you’ve achieved, you have not arrived. Father, always keep us at a place that we
desire to press in closer to you, to learn more about your love, and convict us
until we are obedient and living by what you share and passing those wisdom nuggets
on to other women. Lord, give us some
sense of responsibility to every woman you entrust in our care, to love her,
nurture her, encourage her, uplift her, and give to her! Remove all envy, jealousy, backbiting, two-facedness,
anger, resentment, and pretense that we may have against all women, but
especially ones you’ve given to us as assignments. Let us support our sisters,
because we so desperately want and need their support. Help us, Heavenly One, to be our sisters’
keeper! Amen!
#IAmMySistersKeeper
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