Wonder Woman

I am a self proclaimed Wonder-Woman.
Let me explain before you go looking for my bustier and arm bands....


I have never had a group of women I felt connected to. I have always had a friend here, a pal there. Acquaintences from the kids friends and women from work, but never really a true group of women that had emotion like I do, that loved their families fiercely like I do or that hurt quietly like I do.

Until now.

Let me introduce you to a true inner circle...

The first woman I will tell you about has a great job- but secretly wants to be at home in her pj's every moment, exploring with her kids and watching her husband play like he is a farmer. She has to make critical decisions at work everyday,then comes home to a housefull of errands, practices and produce, all needing to be tended to. Yet she still has made a priority to come and study and be uplifted by a few like minded women, because she is searching for something more...

Another woman is a WHIZ at the sewing machine- makes more quilts than I have ever seen and has a way of figuring things out that is to amazing- she makes it all look trivial.  She has a hubby and 3 college kids, yet she still has made a priority to come and study and be uplifted by a few like minded women, because she is searching for something more...

Another woman has a most difficult job- she speaks to those who have financial issues all day long. Her adult children live in two parts of the country and she takes care of her own house and life, yet she still has made a priority to come and study and be uplifted by a few like minded women, because she is searching for something more...

One other woman has younger children, depending on her husband to cover her when she needs an escape. He is busy too, with a full time job and a family, and she takes care of their farm and holds the fort down, yet she still has made a priority to come and study and be uplifted by a few like minded women, because she is searching for something more...

then there is me....I have such a mess of things going on, I decided I needed this or therapy. Turns out its the best therapy I could get. I live in one type of zoo and work in another. Yet, I still have made a priority to come and study and be uplifted by a few like minded women, because I am searching for something more...

Full of prayer, praise and study. We are the most unlikely group of women to come together- funny how God works like that. No time for house talk, no time for complaining. Just pure studying about ourselves and what parts of us God uses to make our world go round... Focusing on a book about being "unglued". Sticky topic for us all.

By accidentally ministering to one of us, then that one ministering to another, a common thread was born. A thread of wanting Grace, Redemption, Change...a thread of wanting to change our families legacies, or their relationships with each of us. A thread spinning into a fabric that shows no matter the person, we are all human, we all fall short of what we think we should be to ourselves and to others. We all strive to be "that girl" in the Christian books and stories. Didn't take long to realize we are that girl- she isn't perfect either. She is Ruth, she is Deliliah, she is Mary Magdalene, she is Bathsheba, she is the woman at the well.

As I look around the room at these women, all with their hearts open and full of understanding for the others, a sense of comraderie and compassion fills me from within.

And I wonder where they have been all my life.

Thats what meakes me a "Wonder Woman"

Praying for those Wonder Women tonight...and all their wondering.