Welcome
Welcome to the Grown-Up Girlfriends’ Corner. We will have so much fun being able to discuss all types of issues and topics that we deal with as women, mothers, and as girlfriends. I so look forward to sharing with you and even more so, hearing from you with your thoughts, concerns, and experiences. I am certain that most, if not all of you, have experienced the wonderful blessings of female friendships. However, as Carrie Oliver and I talked about in our book, Grown-Up Girlfriends, there are also those difficult times in relationships. Any relationship has its ups and downs…especially our female friendships. However, as women rooted in Jesus Christ, we want to encourage each other to “grow up” in Him through each of these challenges. He uses them to beautify us and cause us to look more like Him.
So, let’s start with this simple question “What are you currently going through that is causing you to grow in your faith?” Is it a relationship issue, a health issue, a parenting issue, or an everyday living issue? For me, the past year has been filled with many losses and I have been learning to walk the road of grief. Embracing grief has provided many wonderful opportunities for me to be on my knees before the Holy One and to also embrace my female friendships. As women, we do such an amazing job of encouraging one another and validating each other’s pain. My friends have done just that over the past year. I just had my 40th birthday celebration and it was a wonderful time to reflect on these relationship blessings. I am so grateful for my female friendships…aren’t you?
April 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Erin, your website is awesome! I love this friendship corner! What a great idea! Your Grown up Girlfriends book was wonderful. My prayers are with you as you work in the hearts of women, helping to establish healthy friendships, that will leave a legacy for our daughters. May your website, your resources and your work, touch many lives…this is your gift.
November 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Erin, there’s just no way for me to begin to tell you how “Grown-up Girlfriends” has touched my life. I love that you used your own daily examples to illustrate some of the things that most of us go through in our daily lives. I believe that by you backing up your day to day life in the “word”, a scripture… just makes it that much better. The truth is, it’s the closest I had come really leaning on Gods’ word in a look time and I needed it desperately for some of the relationships in my life. I thank God for you. I pray that he will continue to bless you and your family.
February 15th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
I hope that you continue to have this feature.
I know that it would be a great encouragement to me.
I also think that your website is a much needed and appreciated resource.
I am thankful for your ministry!!!
Sincerely,
Diana Jane Kurth
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Hi Erin…
What a nice feature to have on your website! We can all use encouragement in todays world. I appreciate your transparency; I too have had many losses in last couple years. Vocal chord surgery has left me with weakened chords such that I cannot talk as I used to. This in turn has made me give up my solo work in church/at events; caused me to stop most of my public speaking (on child abuse), and currently I’m having problems finding a job, due to being a secretary (who would need to be on the phone, etc.) In all this, I have ‘lost myself’ in many ways and now need to find out who the new Brenda is, and what she can still offer others. I’m doing ‘okay’…but it’s difficult and I could use your prayers; thank you!
God Bless…Brenda (Smalley) Robinson (First met you at Northern Pines)
November 11th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I appreciated finding this site because I have learned how invaluable female relationships are. I have had health problems the last 2 years & the love & prayers of my sisters in the Lord have carried me through difficult times such as breaking my back. I am healing now!
Friends have a way of being like a mirror to reflect back to us what we give to them. They share who we are when we have become lost in our identity. I am going on a retreat in a couple of days & pray for God to unite hearts of those going & that we may each learn what God desires for us. Thank you for this web site!