A Lady Day

Had the opportunity today to go talk about some things with some wonderful woman! It is amazing to me the things that they do not teach you in school, and all the things that are lacking in our education, especially as woman.

My mother, younger sisters and I headed to a Seminar this weekend called Maidens By His Design. We learned about menstruation  hormones, cramps, herbs, alternates to feminine products, and we talked about taking your thoughts captive. If you aren't a girl, and you don't want to know about these things, well, I feel for you. God has designed our bodies for a specific reason, and with woman to have you boys, you wouldn't be here. I am blessed with a man who loves every aspect of who God has created me to be, including the parts that people think are "gross". I have ovaries  And a uterus. And that is where a baby is grown and protective. My Beloved, he knows this, and loves that God would do such an amazing thing. You can get even more information going to this site on facebook.

I think the thing that struck me most was "being hormonal is not an excuse to sin." The woman who wrote the curriculum for the girls is actually a midwife, who I've seen her in action (October 1st, 2012, the first time I saw a home birth and photographed it!). She was talking at one point about how she tells pregnant woman that very thing that being in labor is no reason to sin. As I am not pregnant (yet, Lord-Willing!) I applied this to my own life. The week before I start, I get crazy. I cry for no reason, I get angry for no reason, I sometimes get super hyper. It's insanity. Recently, I've noticed more and more how those violent moods affect others, and how they make others feel.

What I took from this seminar, along with a lot of vocabulary that I didn't know that I didn't know, I learned and took to heart to take my thoughts captive. I used to tell my Beloved that ADHD was an explanation  not an excuse. Well the same goes for me and hormones. It is an explanation, not an excuse to be mean to him or others. I need to focus MORE on the Lord when it's "that time of month" or as I like to say when I'm "being a girl".

It was a lot to think about. But this is what I think I need to work on the most.