A while ago, my dear friend
Katelynn told me about a blog that she reads called
Good Women Project.
I must say, I LOVE it when my Google Reader shows me that there is a new post to read on this blog. I love that the entries come from different people at different places in life with different perspectives on life and all that it entails. More than that, I love that it's whole purpose is to help women to be as they were created to be. Check out their mission statement...
We exist to restore a woman’s identity as God created her to be.
We want to help you re-define what a good woman is, and remind you
that you were created with everything it takes. Too many of us have
given up on being a good woman, and it cannot remain this way.
We are adamant believers that good women have the most fun, the best sex, and most fulfilling lives.
We want you to experience this.
While we expect to continually evolve and expand, our current
priority is tackling the issues buried deep in relationships, family,
identity, and sex.
We share women’s stories on an infinite number of related topics that
will give you a glimpse into other lives, young and old – making sure
that you aren’t alone in your struggle to be a good woman. It’s hard, we
know, and we can’t do it alone.
Our generation of women is in the midst of an identity crisis.
Women struggle to stand up for ourselves; to wait, fight for, and
identify good men. We struggle to see ourselves as we were created to
be. We struggle to move out of our past and into our future. We get
stuck in sub-par relationships, and the majority of us don’t have
parents with healthy marriages to go to for advice.
We’ve been wrestling through taboo topics on our own, and very few women are being mentored or mentoring others. This stops here.
Good Women Project is stepping out and starting a conversation with
good women who share their pasts and presents with us. Most of life is
trial and error, but some things (like picking the man you’ll be sexing
up for the rest of your life) cry out for wisdom found in an honest
community of experienced women.
We believe in being a place of trust, honesty, and encouragement.
We know you are in desperate need of breaking the silence, and knowing
that you aren’t alone. We know you need grace, and not judgement;
empathy, and not misunderstanding. We know you need to be encouraged to
keep up the good fight.
We believe in reality.
As women, we are inundated
with romance novels and chick flicks, and the Good Women Project desires
to deliver reality – the GOOD reality – to your kitchen table, your
office space, and your bedroom.
We believe in truth, healing, and faith.
That
nothing is impossible for God, when we let Him slough off the dirt of
our past and fight to become the women the world needs us to be. You
have kick ass hopes for your future, full of moving and shaking- so
we’re not going to repeat your grandmother’s advice back to you. But you
will find wisdom and truth here.
We believe in differences.
We know you aren’t
exactly like everybody else, and that’s why we share stories from every
kind of woman with every kind of past. Truth is one-size-fits-all, but
you are not. And we respect that, and love it.
We believe in hard questions.
We promise to ask and
answer the hard questions, the funny questions, the bedroom questions,
and the I-can’t-believe-you-just-asked-that questions.
Join us as we stop the bitching and the biting, and bring good women back to life.
It is about US. It is about me. It is about you. Ultimately, it is ALSO about US.
I never consider his (whoever he is) feelings. I only think about ME and how I feel and how crappy it is that I am still single. I, without even thinking about it, have made it ALL about me.
What about him?
What about his feelings?
What about the fact that he has to be brave and risk?
What about the fact that he has to pay for the date?
What about the fact that his heart has probably been broken and rejected too?
All this to say, today's post on GWP has left me thinking about so much.
