grow - samantha lynch

12th September 2011 by MORE

"The life of a God Girl centres around not what others think or do to her but who she is. She defines her life by the fact that she belongs to him."

For a long time, I was defining who I was (and even how "good" of a christian I was) by how other people saw me. I also was defining things by how I looked, how I came across or even how confident I was compared to others, which quite often, was not at all.

At school, I wasn't really anything or didn't really belong anywhere. I just was. But if you were to ask people in my year, they would most probably say that I was an average, some-what nerdy, christian girl. And I still am today, except now, I don't mind being a little bit nerdy. Especially when it comes to Glee and graphic design, but that alone is a whole other level of insanity. And over the years, the "christian" label has become so much of who I am that it is no longer something I have to remind people of. Like the me during high school, it just is. This is because it is in everything I do. Separate to nothing and involved in everything.

I am many things. I am an aspiring designer, I am a sister, a daughter, a friend, an aunty. These are some of my labels. But alone they do not define me. What defines me is who I am and who I am becoming in Christ. I belong to God, and I let who he is define who I am. By definition, I am a "God Girl".

This story was originally published on Samantha Lynch's blog on 6 August 2011.

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sharon clanfield

September 22, 2011 at 10:15am

Samantha :) Your an amazing 'God girl' I can still remember those early years when you first started coming to our church. Love the person you were then and love the women you've become. Bless ya Sharon Clanfield

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