The Female Mid-Life Crisis

I have always had a heart for women, most likely because I am one and I have been raised primarily around women.  Years of studying the heart of a woman has happened naturally.  Sisterhood has been one of my most valued treasures.
My sisters and I are struggling.  The only term I know to place on this struggle would be a mid-life crisis, but unlike men it does not drive us to purchase cars or value opinions of the opposite sex.  This crisis causes us to timidly curl up in our shell and pray for brighter days to come.  We are more apt to believe our sadness is our own fault.  If we were better at keeping our schedules straight for our families, if we were more prompt with the laundry or creating those "special moments" that we believe are our responsibilities...then - oh, then this dark cloud would go away.
Ladies, it won't.  I have been there.  It hasn't and doesn't.  You will never do everything right.  Your story with you as the main character will always be a disappointment.  You will never reach a climactic peak where you are the heroine because you folded the towels on time.  And for those of you like me with performance issues - you will never hold a position from your performance that is worth more than your position as a child of God.
Do you want the remedy to the female mid-life crisis?
It is simple, yet complicated.  You must do exactly as Christ commanded you to do - die to self.  You must replace the main character in your life's story to Christ and Him alone.  He is the heroine in your story, He is the performer, He is the great lover - He is the main character.  You have been invited to be a character in the greatest story ever told, but you must quit writing your own story.

I must do the same.