I’m a bit behind schedule with this post but for whatever reason the inspiration to write was not very present this past week. However, today I was on Instagram and I happened across a post that asked the question;
What’s this chapter in your singleness called?
I hadn’t really thought about it to be honest and originally I was gonna say Building but I feel like this chapter is more complex than that. So after some deliberation I came to a chapter title that pretty much catches all that this season has shaped up to be so far
Allow me to reintroduce myself …
This season has been a season of me discovering more sides of myself and getting more comfortable with my constantly shifting identity. My identity is in Christ ultimately, but as I transition from one stage of life to another, I am learning that while that one facet of my identity is constant, the rest of me is ever changing. It’s fun and frustrating, scary and exciting, strange but also completely normal.
This version of Anastasia that I am today is so much more than just a student. For one I’m finished with my degree and unless I go back to school, I am done forever. But being a student was always a big part of who I am, and well it’s interesting to see my identity shift. I am a writer…yes I’ve written for as long as I can remember but I never saw myself as a writer. Looking back at all of my many notebooks (47 so far) and seeing how I have grown and matured, and how my writing has developed is eye opening and it makes me grateful that through every stage God has been with me.
God is molding me into the woman He sees when He looks at me and removing anything that doesn’t fit. It’s overwhelming sometimes when God shows me something about myself that I hadn’t yet discovered, be it good or bad. Transition often is; but as Bishop T.D. Jakes said in his sermon last week “Unstable environments make you activate core muscles.” So in this season of reintroducing, I can find comfort in the fact that one part of me that hasn’t ever changed…being a girl in love with God…and if I can help it, it won’t ever change.
“Unstable environments make you activate core muscles”
Bishop T. D. Jakes
Playlist
Album- Rescue Story by Zach Williams (the title track though 😍🙌🏽💜💛)
