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Lizzy Rich

Just a Handmaiden

Fashion Blogger dedicated to changing the narrative of our modesty to one of dignity, beauty, and self-love through the eyes of our Father

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I definitely wouldn’t say this has been my semester. I’ve pretty much felt like I messed up or let people down at least once a day whether it was my professors and not doing my best work, or my friends by not spending enough time with them, or my boss by pretty much messing a million things up a week, and even my own personal health bodily, spiritually, and mentally. I was praying about it the other day and I was like Jesus I know you don’t see me as a failure but dang it sure feels like it and He looked at me and said, “My daughter, you and I have very different definitions of failure. What you see as a semester of failures I see as a semester of growth in humility, self-knowledge, and faith. This semester you have learned what it is to try and do everything without Me at the center of it all and understood your limits so you never reach this point again. My daughter this semester was a success if you use it to grow and change for the better and grow closer to me. Don’t let this time go to waste” Where can Jesus speak this into your heart today? You are not a failure sister... all the mistakes and days you forgot things or let people down... where can Jesus speak His truth into it?

The closer we grow in intimacy with the cross the more perfectly we will be able to love others.

“I would create the world again just to hear you say you love me” - Jesus to St. Teresa of Avila The unconditional perfect love of this statement continuously keeps me going when I just want to throw in the towel. Sisters - Jesus would create the world again, come into this world again, suffer the most horrible death again, just to hear you say I love you once (heck He’d do it all again even if we chose to reject Him) It’s a selfless love I’ll never be able to comprehend but on nights like the one in this photo when colors are streaking across the sky and the beauty of God’s creation is overwhelming me I can see that love just a little more clearly. He made the world beautiful just for us and that’s a love that is incredibly overwhelming, impossible to comprehend, even harder to accept - but dang I never want to let it go.

Shouting this from the rooftops today! A priest once told me that there is no one who will ever get between me and the vocation that God has planned for me. That shook me to my core. If that’s true than all the women I’ve compared myself to or have not been friends with has been for nothing. It means the women I thought “stole” the boy I wanted to be with and the women who got that job over me and the women on Instagram I feel weird competition with - haven’t actually taken anything from me. These beautiful women are simply living out their vocation and I need to be fully living out mine. The devil does so much to drive us women apart. Imagine a world where we all stood together

As I was reading the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead I was struck by Jesus’ words after Lazarus came out of the tomb, “Unbind him, and let him go.” Immediately a prayer swelled up in my heart. ⠀ ⠀ Jesus, unbind me from all the sins and lies that keep me from running to you. Unbind me from the lie that my body is not fit enough. Unbind me from the need to have a perfect Instagram feed. Unbind me from the lie that I will not be satisfied until I find my husband. Unbind me from the lie that I need to have a perfect GPA. Unbind me from the fear that I’m constantly disappointing people. Jesus - unbind me from anything that I’m constantly grasping at and trying to control that distracts me from what really matters.⠀ ⠀ Then Jesus, replace these lies, fears, and need for control with a greater intimacy with You. What do you need Jesus to unbind in your life today?

Sometimes we get into slumps and have hard nights - and sometimes we just need sleepovers and cinnamon rolls to help us get out of it

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I definitely wouldn’t say this has been my semester. I’ve pretty much felt like I messed up or let people down at least once a day whether it was my professors and not doing my best work, or my friends by not spending enough time with them, or my boss by pretty much messing a million things up a week, and even my own personal health bodily, spiritually, and mentally. I was praying about it the other day and I was like Jesus I know you don’t see me as a failure but dang it sure feels like it and He looked at me and said, “My daughter, you and I have very different definitions of failure. What you see as a semester of failures I see as a semester of growth in humility, self-knowledge, and faith. This semester you have learned what it is to try and do everything without Me at the center of it all and understood your limits so you never reach this point again. My daughter this semester was a success if you use it to grow and change for the better and grow closer to me. Don’t let this time go to waste” Where can Jesus speak this into your heart today? You are not a failure sister... all the mistakes and days you forgot things or let people down... where can Jesus speak His truth into it?

The closer we grow in intimacy with the cross the more perfectly we will be able to love others.

“I would create the world again just to hear you say you love me” - Jesus to St. Teresa of Avila The unconditional perfect love of this statement continuously keeps me going when I just want to throw in the towel. Sisters - Jesus would create the world again, come into this world again, suffer the most horrible death again, just to hear you say I love you once (heck He’d do it all again even if we chose to reject Him) It’s a selfless love I’ll never be able to comprehend but on nights like the one in this photo when colors are streaking across the sky and the beauty of God’s creation is overwhelming me I can see that love just a little more clearly. He made the world beautiful just for us and that’s a love that is incredibly overwhelming, impossible to comprehend, even harder to accept - but dang I never want to let it go.

Shouting this from the rooftops today! A priest once told me that there is no one who will ever get between me and the vocation that God has planned for me. That shook me to my core. If that’s true than all the women I’ve compared myself to or have not been friends with has been for nothing. It means the women I thought “stole” the boy I wanted to be with and the women who got that job over me and the women on Instagram I feel weird competition with - haven’t actually taken anything from me. These beautiful women are simply living out their vocation and I need to be fully living out mine. The devil does so much to drive us women apart. Imagine a world where we all stood together

As I was reading the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead I was struck by Jesus’ words after Lazarus came out of the tomb, “Unbind him, and let him go.” Immediately a prayer swelled up in my heart. ⠀ ⠀ Jesus, unbind me from all the sins and lies that keep me from running to you. Unbind me from the lie that my body is not fit enough. Unbind me from the need to have a perfect Instagram feed. Unbind me from the lie that I will not be satisfied until I find my husband. Unbind me from the lie that I need to have a perfect GPA. Unbind me from the fear that I’m constantly disappointing people. Jesus - unbind me from anything that I’m constantly grasping at and trying to control that distracts me from what really matters.⠀ ⠀ Then Jesus, replace these lies, fears, and need for control with a greater intimacy with You. What do you need Jesus to unbind in your life today?

Sometimes we get into slumps and have hard nights - and sometimes we just need sleepovers and cinnamon rolls to help us get out of it