Status Updates From Let Me Be a Woman

Struggling. Plenty of good things, several contradicting things, and a few “I don’t agree with this at all” things

“The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.” (43)

“If you love Him, you’ll do what He says. And there can be no question as to whether He means it if only you will look at His face, be silent long enough to hear what He says.” (36)

“It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.” (31)

“But we do not choose gifts, remember? We are given them by a divine Giver who knows the end from the beginning, and wants above all else to give us the gifts of Himself. It is within the sphere of the circumstances He chooses for us — single, married, widowed — that we receive Him. It is there and nowhere else that He makes Himself known to us. It is there we are allowed to serve Him.” (26)

“Wherever you are… be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” (17)

“But worship is not a feeling. Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, & this takes discipline. We are to worship “in spirit and in truth.” Never mind the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.” (6)