Hi all, glad to have found this ladies community. I've enjoyed reading your introductions and threads and look forward to contributing where I can.
My main purpose for joining is to hopefully engage with authentic women who are just trying their best to live their lives according to God but in actual reality rather than through twitter trad aesthetics.
This past year really brought me back to God and being on twitter played a huge role in that due to some 'trad' accounts that showed me the beauty and truth of Christianity in contrast to all that is happening in the world. However, I came to find myself extremely disappointed in many of the female accounts as I came to see their faith as being merely 'aesthetic'. A.k.a. look at me, I'm young, married, stay at home with X kids' and if you aren't, then you're a failure/have wasted your best years and deserve it/are damaged goods etc... a.k.a major pride and judgement.
What I think they fail to realise is that reality does not allow that lifestyle for most women across the world, even in their wildest imaginations - not because of their own bad choices, but a myriad of circumstances, including poverty, illness and many more. And even if it was years of bad choices, as Christians, should we not consider that despite everything in someone's past, if they are truly repentant, they are a new creation? Is this not why Jesus died for us?
Thus, whilst I am grateful that I chose the celibate path even during the years I strayed from the faith, other situations outwith my control have brought me to being single and childless at 28 (mainly caring for sick parents whilst working full time). As such, whilst yes, I would love for a husband and kids should God choose to change my circumstances, I am trying to meet women who won't judge me for having a corporate job, or for not a husband/kids, and instead of focusing on the aesthetics of the faith, will engage with topics related to the practicalities of living out our faith in a world that has completely rejected God, and which presents us with daily struggles and opportunities for the faith journey. At the end of the day, we are only responsible for our own actions and choices before God.
To end on a positive note, God is good.