What Is A Woman?
What is a woman? A simple question, with a stunningly beautiful answer.
She is a human person, body and soul, who is created in God’s image and likeness, and given the supernatural gift to make room within herself for another to flourish.
She imitates Christ as priest, prophet, and king from the depths of her heart. She is drawn to first do with her heart what man is drawn to first do with His hands.
She is the place in the created world where love first takes root.
She is the passage through which all human life moves; it is within her that God has chosen to breathe life and entrust His most precious gifts.
She is complimentary to he. To be a she cannot be chosen. It cannot be given back. It cannot be changed. To be created as a she is a gift that you either receive, or you don’t.
In today’s Gospel, John shares with us the beautiful words of the Good Shepherd, “the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.” He calls each of us by name because He knows each of us and has given His life to show us the way.
Not too long ago, we read of Peter denying Christ three times during His passion. Peter loved Jesus, his friend, his Shepherd, his Lord, his Savior, but over and over, Peter denied God out of fear.
Today, evil hangs heavy in the air as it did on the night of Christ’s arrest. Each of us stands in Peter’s sandals being asked on all sides to confess the truth of our love and trust in Jesus, our Shepherd, and out of fear we deny Him.
When Jesus returns after the resurrection, His body still showing the wounds of His passion, He asks Peter three times, do you love me?
Just as Jesus does for Peter, He does for us. He stands before us and restores the pieces of our broken hearts inviting us into the intimacy of what it means to be God’s son and daughter by asking each of us, do you love me? He is our Shepherd and our Father; who He created us to be is not our choice, but His perfect will.
Each week this month we will explore a different piece of God’s design for “woman.” Commit to praying, growing, and serving in God’s Truth with us.
