Let’s talk about why we can walk into a room with confidence in front of the people there, how we can put our identity as daughter to work by recognizing the dignity of daughter and son in the people around us, and encouraging them in who they are, and choosing vulnerability and humility to allow other people to do the same for us.

“Every woman is a mother” feat. Funny middle school stories and profound Edith Stein quotes

POV: you’re thirteen years old at your first retreat. This beautiful woman with perfect hair comes on stage. She shows you a picture of her gorgeous husband, and she starts telling you all about her story, their love story. You try to relate, but you have frizzy hair. You don’t look like her. You’ve never been asked out because you’re thirteen. Then you heard about being a woman of God, kind of. Fast forward, and all of a sudden you’re 25 and single and not sure what to do with that as a woman following Christ. Who am I? What am I supposed to be? Yea girl, us too. Let’s talk.