I am a woman on a mission. A least today I am. Today I feel confident. I feel loved. I looked in the mirror, and I didn’t want to crawl back into bed. (Well, maybe a little, because… bed.) Today I woke up with a sense of purpose. I woke up feeling content in who I am and who I’m called to be. But this isn’t always the case. Social media is a life-sucker. After 5 minutes of scrolling and double-taps, I often find myself thinking I’m fat, hating my clothes, wishing I were on holidays, eating better food with cooler people.
Did I mention I’m wildly single?
Nothing to boost the ol’ confidence like a bajillion Facebook status updates saying your best friend from wherever is engaged to whomever. I mean, it’s cool. My biological clock is ticking, but seriously, it’s whatever.
But here’s the thing. That stuff isn’t real. I mean, it is, but the comparison isn’t real. My journey is going to look drastically different from your journey, and somehow, I have to become okay with that. I know that God has set a path before me, and if I spend so much time comparing my goals to your goals… I’m actually wasting time.
Life is happening now. God, in his God-ness, put you and me on this planet sucking oxygen at this moment in history for a reason. He put other people — real, tangible people — in our sphere of influence on purpose. And guess what? Our stories are intricately woven together. Not so that we can compare and compete with each other, but because we have a magnificent part to play in God’s relentless love affair with humanity.
There’s nothing more attractive, in my opinion, than a woman who knows she’s called to come alongside the lost and the broken, who understands her God-given feminine heart and the beauty that lies within that.
We are called to run towards the lost, to run towards the broken. We are called to have a mission heart, whether it be local or global or within our own families. Each of us has a race to run. Don’t get so focused on who’s running next to you because you think they’re doing it better or faster or easier. Your race is unique in calling. But it is unified in purpose with the rest of humanity. This is our mission.
By Jenna Frank