What Makes A Woman?

Hey!

So I've been thinking...what makes a girl a woman? What act or decision or information ushers a girl into womanhood? 

Will you allow me to speak frankly for a little while? To speak my mind and ask questions that currently I don't have the answers to?

From decades ago and cultures beyond, boys became men through multiple things, their first hunt, their age, sex.

But what about women? How did we go from girls to women? Was it age? Marriage? Maybe childbirth? Or is there some secret handed down from mother to daughter that magically brings the daughter into being a woman?

If so I was pretty sure that I missed that boat, because I definitely didn't feel like a woman. I still felt like that girl from High School trying to make her way through life. Trying to get a passing grade in being a wife and a mom, a daughter-in-law and a sister.

That girl who is obsessed with perfection to cover her insecurities, who is consumed with staying society's twig thin version of beautiful, and who does not realize the importance of seeking after the One who made me. 

Yet standing in the bathroom, looking at the mirror this morning I saw not the girl that graduated from High School, but a woman, albeit young and fallible.

I saw a woman who realizes her insecurities but will not be mastered by them,

A woman who realizes that her body will grow and change and those changes are not ugly,

Who has come to the conclusion that the Lord is what matters first and foremost, 

But more than that,

I saw a mother who would do anything for the little girl across the hall in her crib,

A wife who would follow her husband and love him every day till she dies,

A daughter, sister, and granddaughter that will be there for her family whenever needed. 

So whatever happened between graduation and now, be it bible school, marriage or motherhood, I am no longer the girl that I used to be. 

This girl has become a woman. 

And yet, here I am still unsure about when that transformation took place, when I was ushered into womanhood. 

So now I ask you. What do you think brings along this change? Was there a single moment where you "became a woman" or did it just spring up on you one day and you realized that you were no longer a girl. Is it merely the changing of a woman's body or a secret phrase? 

What Makes a Woman?

xoxo,
Samantha