crazy

"Am I crazy...?"

I've heard it countless times from sister voices...

"Maybe I'm just going crazy."

"They make me crazy."

"Sometimes I think I'm loosing it."

"Am I crazy...?"

The frequency makes me wonder if this is one of the accusations tried and true that is hurled against our vulnerable hearts.

There are genuine seasons of up and down, murk and clarity, heavy and light. And sometimes our brains are knocked out of a tenuous balance. But these women I speak of, are just in the throes of normal life.

These women (these girl hearts growing into life) so often thrown down, start to question. Question not the dim and awe and mystery and wonder (which we will always question) but question the knowable. The sure we are promised as His daughters.

We can know that "God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 1:7)

Not fear. But power, love and a sound mind.

So sisters, let's not speak crazy over ourselves or each other. But let's walk brave into the throes of life upholding each other's arms when we are too weak. Too fearful.

Because we are all weak. None of us are above anything. But God!

But God gives wisdom, discernment, insight, knowledge, discretion ("a woman's intuition"). That "feeling" you get in certain situations, not when walking in fear, but when abiding in Christ as the Holy Spirit overflows, comes from power, love and a sound mind.