Before you read this:
I am a Christian. I am simply a Christian.
I’m a Christian woman who has been exploring the world of adulthood as of August 2008 and the married woman’s world as of November 2010. With it’s struggles and success, I thank the Lord for every minute, every trial, every quest, and I shall continue to praise and serve the Lord until His work is complete. Looking to Him for guidance in my daily ventures.
I grew up in a feminism based world Now I am “taking out the trash” so to speak on all that has been taught to me about womanhood through culture and society.
I embrace femininity, modesty and I cover my head. I covering during the day and at night, I also do not cut my hair. I do get the “normal questions” But that is nothing out of the ordinary. I just simply state I am a Christian.
God has given me a gift, and that gift is being a woman!
I attended college part-time with an undecided major. I took several business classes and began to excel in American Sign Language.
After a series of wonderful events, on November 20th 2010 I married my Aaron. Having a family and running a household is a lovely dream of mine. I picked up on different things and learned lessons that I should have learned years ago on how to be a helper to my homemaking skills, but was too ignorant to care and had very low self-esteem. But with some motivation, I enjoy learning these lessons.
I am not that organized and I lean toward being a pack rat, this combination is not good and has led me to make goals, stick to projects, not to covet, and live modestly. To be content and see the blessings that God has given me.
I do not have any children yet but I hope with each child I am blessed with I can raise up a godly people and affect generations to come! The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world . I couldn’t ask for a more noble job. (Psalm 127:3).
Aaron & I
Our Courtship
June 6th 2010
Our Engagement
July 9th 2010
Our Wedding
November 20th 2010
My Core Beliefs
- Jesus is the only Son of God.
- Born of the virgin Mary, was crucified for our sins, died, on the third day He rose again.
- He took the punishment that we deserve, He gave up His life.
- God took out His wrath on His Son Jesus, the wrath that we deserve.
- Nobody will get to God without Him.
- One must repent, and be born again in order to recieve salvation.
- The world was created by God in six days. God rested on the seventh.
- God does not send people to Hell, we send ourselves to Hell by rejecting Jesus.
- Hell was a place made for Satan and his demons.
- We are given freewill. God did not create robots. He wants us to love Him because we WANT to not because we were pre-destined to. But when we become Christians we are destined for Heaven.
- Since we have freewill, we can fall from grace and reject God if we choose to do so.
- Love is a choice, I chose to love the Lord because He loved me first by remaining on the Cross when He had full authority to not go through such suffering. He could have called legions of angels!
- The Bible is the only Word of God. There are no mistakes in His Word.
- The Bible does not talk about infant baptism. When someone comes to an age of understanding, accepts Jesus, understands what is going on, wants to serve Him and they feel the Lord’s leading is when they should be baptized. Baptism is an outward expression of an inward change.
- The natural order of things is
GOD –> Jesus –> Man –> Woman
This does not mean that woman are dummies and don’t deserve to be treated humanly, quite the opposite! The Bible depicts wisdom as a women, tells husbands to care for and love their wives and has a great example of a treasured woman in Proverbs 31. If it is God’s order He must have made it for a very good reason! God doesn’t make rules just to be a control freak. He does it to protect us, because He loves us.
- I wear skirts and dresses only, and practice covering my head and hair because God showed me and told me to, and I love it! Truly and honestly. .
- I believe that dating is like practicing for divorce. The usual situation is you like someone, you go out, find out you don’t like them then you break up. This is sadly how many marriages are as well.. You date then get married with no guidance or counsel. Find out you don’t like each other then leave. It is wrong as well as selfish. Our society depicts that relationships are supposed to be flawless and have no room for conflict.Yes, there are parts of reletionships that can be “flawless” and “beautiful” But try as one might there are going to be conflict. Two people who stick it out and love each other inspite of conflict is even more beautiful.
- Courtship is a better alternative. Since you are only going to marry one, why give pieces of your heart away to others? I have. It is not worth it. Do not violate your conscience! If you have, it is hard I know! I have been there. I had a couple of relationships prior to when I got saved. Then one after I was saved. And I knew better. Don’t beat yourself up though. There is grace and forgiveness for you. Give it to God. Sooner rather then later. He can take away the burden and guilt but only if you will let Him.
- I believe that homeschooling is a better alternative to public schooling. I don’t know about you but I would not want to send my future children off for 8 hours a day 5 days a week to a place, with people I do not know, where they are taught that humans are elite apes, God is not real and that Christianty is for the uneducated fool.
- I do believe that children are a blessing from God. Sadly our society views them as burdens and roadblocks other then the gifts that they really are! I want God to give me all of the children He wants me to have. Whether it is no children or 20 children, let God’s will be done.
- The home is the best place for a growing, developing child. They can learn just as must while being at home (sometimes more) than public school. At home you can give your child one-on-one attention and they are not a number.
If you have any questions or would like to see more on here just drop me a line 😀
Blessings,
Sister Lauren-Mae
I’m very happy for you and Aaron. I’ve known Aaron his entire life and I consider him to be a friend of mine.
Thank you ver much! We are very happy and appriciate the congrats and well wishes from everyone. By knowing the Cooks I have got to meet a lot of people. Sorry to ask, if I forgot, but I am just curious-Have I met you before? 🙂