25.

"I now know, Lord, why you utter no answer.

You are, yourself, the answer."

- C.S. Lewis, "Till We Have Faces"

24.

"Fear is a thief.

It erodes our faith,

plunders our hope,

steals our freedom,

and takes away our joy

of living the abundant life in Christ."

- Neil Anderson, from his book Freedom from Fear

"... but I am among you as one who serves..."

-jesus

luke 22.27

23.

Be who you are and say what you feel,

because those who mind don't matter

and those who matter don't mind.

~Dr. Seuss

22.

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

- Robert Browning

21.

"The depth is simply the height inverted, as sin is the index of moral grandeur. The cry is not only truly human, but divine as well. God is deeper than the deepest depth in man. He is holier than our deepest sin is deep. There is no depth so deep to us as when God reveals his holiness in dealing with our sin... And so think more of the depth of God than the depth of your cry. The worst thing that can happen to a man is to have no God to cry to out of the depth."

P.T. Forsyth

20.

We are a servant
We have a song
The side of a beehive
A tabernacle choir

We are the sound
Working in wars
The bishop is gone
To the acolyte shores

We save our Bibles
We pull our sleeves
The word is a guard
And the guard is a cleave

We are the right
We are the stay
The accolade's gone
We are what You say

We have no language
We have no chore
The side of a beehive
The bride is a whore

We are a spite
We are at bay
The Spirit is life
We are what You say

We have a sermon
We have a song
The bishop is easy
The bishop is wrong

The Spirit is right
The Spirit will say
We are a light
We are what You say

- Sufjan Stevens

19.

needed to be creative tonight... nothing like paper bags and crayons!

18.

17.

"The fact that I'm a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian,

but the fact that I'm a Christian makes me a different kind of woman..."

- Elisabeth Elliot

Something very new is happening inside of me - I'm appreciating the female race.

Tonight I experienced what it's like for women to create healthy community that was centered on knowing and pursuing Christ and each other. It was so real, so creative, and so inviting.

Slowly, but surely, God is easing me into making peace and seeing the strength in my gender