Have you ever just had to have something,and when you got it you wondered what made you think you HAD to have it??
Here’s a story I want to dedicate to all the women I met at my Christmas events this week in New Hampshire and Colorado:
Frantically searching for the doll her daughter had to have, my friend Janet drove all over town looking for Generation Girl Barbie. She remembered how ridiculous she’d thought it was to watch the Tickle-Me Elmo craze and couldn’t believe how desperately she now wanted to find this one-of-a-kind doll. Finally, she tracked down Generation Girl days before Christmas. Janet couldn’t wait to see her daughter Ali’s excitement when she opened the box and played with her new friend for days on end.
A week into the new year, Janet was cleaning house when she stumbled over Ali’s Barbies. Funny how they all look alike wearing no clothes! Generation Girl had ended up with the rest of her glamorous friends in a loss-of-identity crisis. Janet laughed out loud when she realized her efforts to accumulate the perfect collection had brought her nothing but a bucket of naked Barbies!
Okay, so we’re probably all too old for Barbies but don’t we all have our crazy “have to have it” moments? So, what are some things you needed to have, or thought you had to have – got ’em and still wanted more. You know what I mean. Let’s get real girlfriends – will they ever be enough?
Please post your thoughts in my comments area (you can be anonymous) and I will do a drawing from my “authentic friends comments club” for a copy of the message I shared this week about coming to a point in my life where Jesus finally became my “enough” along with a Starbuck’s gift card – my favorite Christmas treat! I’ll send someone a CD to keep and one to give away! And then you can check off one thing on your Christmas gift list :-).
Please note: I decided to extend this drawing through Monday since I am SO enjoying your comments. Also, I just finished my event in Colorado so I want to leave time for them to join in too!! Be sure to come back Tuesday, December 4th to see if you are the winner.
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It is good to know that Jesus is all we need, but how hard it is to understand it!
Renee…
I came across your blog via Proverbs 31 Devotions Ministry. What a fabulous way for women to connect!
In my own personal walk, I’d have to say that I have really struggled with searching for the approval from others. I’m 35 and a mother of 4 daughters and yet I still find myself desperately wanting acceptance and approval from those around me. The Lord has brought out the hidden areas in my heart where I have searched for man’s approval. Maybe not as obvious as it once was in my 20’s, but the root is still there. No matter how much I fill up my bucket, there must be a hole in the bottom ’cause it always needs more!
The Lord gently reminds me that He alone is my only source! I know that other women can relate!
Thanks for your wonderful ministry!
Renee
Greetings from now snowy New England. Thank you for ministering to our hearts and helping me focus on his presence this advent. My two special guests were theyoung daughters of my friend who dies this year. You made them laugh and touched their sad hearts. Thank you for your ministry and great web site. Carolynn
To Cariokie,
I am a book junkie also. I can identify. I have a huge bookcase full of christian books and still collecting. Trying to get my husband to read one of them with me is another story.
Renee –
What a beautiful website! I ran across it from Crosswalk Daily Devotionals. I love the “display”!!
I hear what you are saying here! I have been cleaning out toys of my three kiddos to make room for the new that will come this season. I am finding that I am giving away the toys that I sought after last year that was that “perfect gift”.
I always want, gotta have another pair of shoes. Whenever I go to the mall I have to go into Burlington (they always have a great shoe collection)just to look at them. But I have to confess I don’t always leave empty handed.
Tammy Rude
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I always want, gotta have another pair of shoes. Whenever I go to the mall I have to go into Burlington (they always have a great shoe collection)just to look at them. But I have to confess I don’t always leave empty handed.
Tammy Rude
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Renee–
It is amazing as I read the other comments how similar we can be! I am a book-a-holic and have to have every new Dekker, Henderson, Rivers, etc that comes out. I do read them and put housekeeping on the back burner. Sometimes I feel as if I am living a different life when I read, the life of the heroine, and her life is usually so much more exciting. I need to focus on what God wants for my life and live it for him.
I also have a ton of scrapbook “stuff” which a friend got me into and which I wish I could get out of. Thanks for all your thoughts.
Josie Lytle
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I am a single mother of two wonderful teenage boys, and am currently finishing up my nursing degree this May. I have been at times in places where I just thought I had to have this or that only to find I really could do without it…Not until my almost 4 years of school and a very tight budget did I truly feel the impact of getting something I thought I had to have..at first I could pout about not really having the money to spend on it and not get it (which is the wise thing to do…excluding the pouting..) then something stressful happens and I would try to make myself feel better by buying something..whether it be eating out or splurging and going to the movies when I knew I did not have the money…the impact of that impulse would come when the rent or utilities was due…it has been through these hard times that God has steadily been calling me closer to him so that when I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders he reminds me that he has it and I can run to him and take all I need from him and that is truly the only thing I need…now I must put into practice the habit of running to my father for everything…and in that my cup (bucket,bathtub) will run over…