My Value

There are no guarantees in this life. We are not guaranteed tomorrow. I've learned that, when losing my 21 year old cousin and family friends to cancer, and watching other family members fight each day against their cancer. I can plan and hope and strive for tomorrow, but it will get me no where but frustrated! For so long it has hurt to once again be single. Growing up there is so much drive and natural focus on getting married and raising a family. But that is not where God has me at right now. Am I somehow a failure because I don't have a husband or children, is my life some how less meaningful and worthwhile because I don't have a family of my own. I refuse to believe that because our society defines a person without children and a spouse as somehow self-centered and in need of a little growing up that I am destined to live a life with that labeling. That is not who I am. God is faithful and God has a plan for my life, God gives me my worth and my purpose in life. And whether I have a husband and 10 kids or a master's degree and spend my life loving God and serving others, God still sees me as beautiful and perfect, and quite frankly that is all that matters!!!