I am every woman...really?

I spent last night talking with a beautiful, powerful, and amazing friend of mine. We shared the same lost dreams and have cried the same tears.

But the thing I couldn't get over, we both are incredibly successful in our chosen fields. We both worked at the tops of our games at such a young age. And we both found ourselves hiding our lights when it came to relationships.

Why?

Why do we, and by we I mean every woman who hasn't let her light shine in the homeplace like she does in the workplace, think we will be loved less?

In complete truth, he never asked me to dimmer my intelligence, my laughter, my dreams. I would like to think had I ever verbalized my thoughts, he would have been offended. But I thought I had to do just that.

I was wrong. I am intelligent, funny, and the way I view the world is perfectly okay because that's the way I have been created. To think any less, to act any differently, to hide even one fiber of the way we have been knit together is nothing short of sinful.

His plan for women has always been mighty. And I cling to being every woman. Every woman who has been here, who has overcome, and who has found herself at the foot of the cross.

And who has been redeemed.