Monday, January 19, 2009

Misunderstanding Alanis

Ok, so I began blogging on Confessionsofasinglemormon girl.blogspot.com, have been blogging there under the pen name Bridget for a good part of a year. My friend ,who blogged under pen name Kris thought it would be a great idea to start a blog documenting the ups and downs of being a single mormon girl. Thank you Kris for asking me to be a part of that blog..i have graduated to my own, felt the need to branch off and reveal who I really am...not Bridget, but Jen. Single girl in California...single mormon girl...does that however define who I am? In many ways yes. Being part of a large church that values above all families...to be on your own...figuratively and sometimes literally,without a family...makes it hard to define who I am without defining who I'm not...a wife and a mother...However, when I moved back to my Native California...almost three years ago..i did so at the urgings of a very strong spiritual beckoning... an answer and confirmation to prayers came through an Alanis Morrisette song..don't laugh... and the kicker is as I look up the words just now, to the song I was listening to and thought was speaking just to me...I realize..wouldn't you know it...the words I thought she said "the need to liberate" (which is exactly what this sister needed to do)..is in actuality, in Alanis' words "I need a moment to deliberate"...well the rest is history..Jen felt the spirit, even though she couldn't tell what the Hell Alanis was saying. God works in mysterious ways...California was and is the perfect place for me to learn how to liberate..from the labels I put on myself, for the boundaries that I myself place in front of me, and the glass ceiling I am so comfortable about having right above me..i have actually been known to windex that glass ceiling...its a new year...and almost three years after I misunderstood Alanis, I am in exactly the right place, liberating before your eyes....

4 comments:

  1. I know there's some famous quote about getting to where one should be via one's mistakes (but typical me I can't remember). Misunderstanding Alanis may well be one of the best things you could have done.

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  2. Can I just say that I have been struggling with my own "labels" this week and hating the glass ceiling that I know I have put there. I'm so lucky to have you in my life and I'm glad you answered my 2nd email. You were the answer to many prayers and I'm so glad you misinterpreted the song...maybe alanis needs a re-write!

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  3. I know, why do we put labels on ourselves,and what is motivating the glass ceiling? I don't know...lets just get rid of all the self imposed boundaries..now..lets do it..now..nnnow.

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  4. I agree that misunderstanding Alanis was not at all a coincidence..totally meant to be..i heard what i wanted and needed to hear...and i'm so glad i did...

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