Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.
No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.
Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
Women are not just victims; they are survivors and leaders on the community-level backlines of peace and stability.
This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.
The problem with being linear minded is that you would ask this at all! You assume that you must do one or the other. Plan or not plan. How about planning to walk in a certain direction until the "now" offers you another plan?
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child. Listen. All the awakened ones, like trusted midwives are saying, 'welcome this pain. It opens the dark passage of Grace.
Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.