Glass Ceiling Syndrome

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“For nothing is impossible with God.” ~Luke 1:37

Sometimes, I just think…it’s never gonna happen.

As a woman dawning on the first year of her thirty’s next year I realize in some eyes, I’m still considered young. But I also realize that in a world filled with the hurry up and do it concept I have yet to hurry up and do it. {smile}

Not more than a few days ago my oldest daughter who is 9, came up running up to me with much excitement in her tone! She was rambling her thoughts to me of all she hoped of dreaming to be…one day. In the realm of her dreams she will become an Olympian, a missionary in China, find the cure for cancer and all the while wearing the Mrs. America crown.

She’s looking pretty good these days. {wink}

It’s hard as a mom to not want to bust her bubble of all that she hopes to be one day. And in fact, she very well could accomplish all of those things. She could. But will she?

Will she still want the same things for her life in ten, fifteen or even twenty years?

Probably not.

I was thinking today about when we start to put a cap on our dreams. Is it in high-school? College? Or when we become a woman living in the “real world”? Is it when we jump that first time and fall flat on our face? Or is it when we start to wonder if our dreams are really within reach?

Glass Ceiling Syndrome is the fear that we can only go so far. We convince ourselves that there is someone more qualified, more likely and more worthy to go where we want to go. It’s an unofficial barrier that puts us at our stopping point. And most of the time when the glass ceiling meets our life, it is seemingly impossible to break through.

But, you do know that our God is the possible God.

You know that our God picks the unlikely for the likely.

That he qualifies the unqualified and He turns the light green when it should be red.

Think about it for a second. All throughout the bible, you and I can find heroes of the faith that seem to have no business being where they are at. What about Noah? Or Moses? Or David or even Mary, Jesus’ mother? These people just seemed to not hold the titles of what it would take to do something amazing for God. But yet, they did.

For many years in my life, I held a title in my soul of, “The Unlikely Candidate”. I believed that because one morning at the tender age of 19 years old when I held up a pregnancy test that said, “positive”, that my glass ceiling was reached that day. I believed that the Lord would forgive me, but that was all. There would never be anything more for my life than that of an unlikely girl.

My glass ceiling reached me way before I could ever even try to reach it.

Until one day quite frankly, I just got sick of it. I got sick of just going through the motions of life. I got sick of standing against the wall. And I got sick of that glass ceiling that seemed to suffocate me day after day.

So I broke through it.

I ran against my flesh and ran towards Jesus. I let Him pick up the broken pieces and make me whole again. And I let Him work through those raw wounds in my soul and put those dreams back in my heart again.

Do you feel Unlikely for Jesus today?

No matter where you are at in life, hold your head high, wear your title well and break through that glass because God‘s got so much more for you than you can ever imagine. Believe that the dreams that you once held in your heart are real and that the Father wants to see them come true too.

In Him,

Nicki

Nicki Koziarz is a lover of sand between her toes and enjoys laughing until her belly hurts but really in the depths of her soul she is nothing more than an a once broken down Jesus girl. Nicki is a staff writer for the exciting new Proverbs 31 ministry, “She Seeks” which is a place of encouragement for today’s 20-something women. Check out www.sheseeks.org for more encouragement.