So I am odd, So what?

Acts 1“These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.”

I sometimes because of the generation I was raised, because of some churches’ protocols, because of social issues in my small midwestern town, I feel that as a woman I need to know my place even as I pray to God. But then I read versus like the one above and I believe my natural inclination to speak up and stir the pot is perhaps what I was meant to do. Maybe it is ok to be me. Just because I am a woman and a little eclectic, maybe just maybe that is the way God wanted me.

When I was little I looked up to women who were so lady-like and demure as I was not. Yet they had a certain strength even if they were submissive.(a word that makes me nauseous) It’s a hard thing to try and define the woman God wants me to be. Maybe I am just trying too hard to conform to what others think I should be?

Back to the verse. It seems when I read this verse that everyone was of one accord in prayer. Which If I dare to interpret further doesn’t mean they were of one accord in everything. They are listed differently because they were all different. The apostles(all different back rounds) The women(all different lifestyles) Mary,(a mom, mature in age) and Jesus’ brothers (some who could have been teens). But they come together at the right time for the right reason for God. The first prayer meeting or even the first church meeting of sorts.

My final conclusion: I will always be a work in progress but perhaps I should listen only to God and His word about how I should be. It’s way easier as I never listen to anyone else anyway. :)~