She has left!

Please don't be alarmed by the title, it's dramatic but the ending isn't, it's just an analogy. I hope this reflection is a blessing to your life.

She has left!

For a while I've searched for her, sometimes I've missed her, most of the time I don't even think about her. I know I know her because we have lived in the same body for 39 years. Of course, over time things have changed. At first we lived very comfortably until one day, everything started to feel a little cramped. We should have had this talk long ago, but maybe we never had the time, one of us has to go!

I'm a little tired, I told him, the children don't let me sleep enough. She replied: remember how much fun it was when you could sleep when you wanted, you could stay up late and get up as late as you wanted. You're right, it was convenient, today I can't, the child is crying.

How careless you have become, he constantly told me. It's normal, I answered, I don't have time, maybe another day. Also, I hardly remember how to apply makeup anymore, I'll wear the earrings until the baby stops pulling them, let my hair down, don't even mention it, I'll surely get tangled up somewhere trying to chase a child.

Look at nothing more than a house so disorganized, weren't you a perfectionist, that we always dream of an impeccable house, with children always clean, combed and with shoes on, who never make a mess? Oh, I have to teach them, I told her, one day they will learn, for the moment I can do it on my own.

How about we learn a new recipe and surprise the husband. I don't feel like it, he told me, I miss the days when we bought food almost all the time and watched movies, there was no one to talk to during dinner.

How I would like to live in a completely finished house and buy things to decorate and that nobody move anything from the place where I put it. You're right, she replied, I remember when we dreamed of having our own house, even though it wasn't so much fun living alone.

We continued like this for several years, living together, but with different opinions, until one surprising day she told me: you are no longer the same, it is very difficult to live with you, you have become a contentious woman.

Bien, déjame sola le dije, ya no nos parecemos, me molesta que siempre me estes recordando el pasado.

And so it happened that one day he was gone and almost completely disappeared from my mind. Only I remain, the contentious woman, who complains about the disorder, the lack of time, the fatigue, the fact that the sun does not rise, etc. etc

I feel lonely, my house is never quiet, there are always many things to do, but sometimes I feel bored. I'm tired, I don't want to be this contentious woman anymore.

God, please help me to be that virtuous woman that you want me to be, sometimes I feel that I am worthless, that my efforts are in vain, that I never finish what I start, however, you remember me with all your promises in your word i'm wrong. Show me the way daily on this pilgrimage of life. My heart is willing listen.

Call on me and I will answer you, and I will teach you great and hidden things that you do not know.

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; Where does my help come from? –

Your help comes from Jehovah who made heaven and earth, he will not give your foot to the slippery,

He who keeps you will not sleep.

Remember:

That if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; old things passed away; behold, they are all made new.

-And I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. –

Yo como pastor apacentaré a mi rebaño, en mi brazo llevaré a los corderos, y en mi seno los guardaré, pastoreará tiernamente a las que tienen crías.

Be convinced of this, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Do not fear, because I am with you; do not faint, because I am your God that I strive for you; I will always help you, I will always support you with the right hand of my justice.

Virtuous woman, who will find her?

Because his esteem far exceeds that of precious stones.

Her husband's heart is confident in her.

Strength and honor are his clothing, and he laughs at what is to come.

Her children rise up and call her blessed.

Grace is deceitful and beauty is vain,

The woman who fears Jehovah that will be praised.

I have modified the verses to simulate the words of affirmation that God gave me to a conversation, which is precisely what prayer is, communication with our creator.

Jeremiah 33:3

psalm 121

2 Corinthians 3:13

Galatians 2:20

Isaiah 40:11

Philippians 1:6

Isaiah 41:10

proverbs 31