Magnetic (Guest Post by Lynn Cowell)
Posted on November 25, 2014 in Uncategorized
My love,
The list…the one with all of the qualities you were going look for in a mate one day. Mine included:
Faithful
Honest
Stable
Hard working
Kind
Funny…
That was my short list. So, with my list in my head and in my heart, I began the search. What my youth pastor or parents failed to tell me was when you’re 19 years old, finding someone with all the traits of your mature dad can be pretty hard!
There are so many wonderful things my parents taught me that I have passed on to my kids. But here is the one area I’m parenting differently: I am teaching my kids to become “the list”. I’m challenging them to:
Switch their focus from looking for the guy to becoming the girl; the girl God wants her to be. The girl reaching her fullest potential by living a life that shows Him to the world.
I’m challenging them to focus their time, energy and emotions, not on looking for that person, but on becoming the person. Just like my kids, their peers are still developing their hearts and minds everyday. The wise thing to do now is to become like Jesus, as in loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, good, gentle, faithful, and self-controlled.
I’m encouraging my girls to stop fixating on the guy and start focus on the Guy – Jesus—and becoming the girl God wants her to become. She can then trust God to take care of bringing a guy.
The girl who invests her time, energy, and emotions, not on a guy she doesn’t have, but on the One she does inspires a move. She moves from obsessing over why she isn’t wanted to becoming the type of girl a guy would want. Not just as someone to date, but as the one he’d want to spend the rest of his life with. And that outcome is just a byproduct!
The true benefit is becoming a girl with confidence; God confidence.
I’m not sure where you are at on your journey of raising your kids, but just think what might happen if we each teach our children to become the one God wants them to become. Then as their parents, we can step back and let God take care of the rest.
Lynn Cowell
She is also giving away 2 copies of her new book “Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants”.
Packed with honesty, encouragement and perspective-changing truth Magnetic by Lynn Cowell (available at Amazon, B&N, CBD, everywhere books are sold), will empower girls and young woman to reach their fullest potential by focusing on becoming who God made them to be! A girl who reflects God’s love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. To enter to win, share who you would like to give Magnetic too. It would make a terrific Christmas gift!
Lynn Cowell is a Proverbs 31 speaker and the author of several books including her newest “Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants”. Her passion in speaking and writing is empowering wise women to raise wiser daughters. Her husband and their three children live in North Carolina where they love to hike, raft, and enjoy anything combining chocolate and peanut butter. You can connect with Lynn at www.LynnCowell.com.
