Free To Be
I recently wrote in an Anniversary card to my husband, "it must be hard being married to someone who doesn't really know who they are" and it's true, fifteen years ago I was 22 and had no freaking clue who I was. Now I am 37 and finally beginning to figure it out. A few months ago I read a book by Jen Hatmaker called Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire , I am now close to being done with Untamed by Glennon Doyle and these books are changing my life. I am learning that for most of my life I have succumbed to the cages society put me in and I'm finally finding my way out. I grew up in a very conservative evangelical sect of Christianity. A lot of things were "bad". Halloween was bad, secular music was bad, dating was bad, voting democrat was bad (and so on). When I was taught the story of Adam and Eve I bought into the lie that we are fallen because Eve screwed up, it was ultimately "her fault". That lie lead me to believe that maybe there i...