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The Story of Three Sisters - Count it All Joy - 1998

Ten years later... I can still sense my tendency to try to "be it all" - but the difference is - I choose to just "give it my all" and embrace who I am... why does wisdom come so late? For most of my adult life, I have struggled with an identity crisis. Actually, the crisis has not been with who I am, but rather, with whom I wanted to be. Being a Christian wife and mother, I have had certain expectations of how I am perceived… both by God and man. When looking for biblical examples of what to strive for… I can always turn to Proverbs 31, but that woman intimidates me so greatly, I prefer to have a name and face (even a face in my imagination) with whom to emulate. The New Testament gives us a glimpse into the lives of two sisters, Mary and Martha, who with their brother Lazarus, were friends of Jesus. Often I have attended women’s studies where the “Mary or Martha” styles were examined and the strong points of each discussed. Martha...