As daughters of the Creator God, we also are born with an innate ability to create, and I’m so glad our God did not make us cookie-cutter people with the exact same gifts and abilities. I love seeing how the God-given urge to create is expressed through our women in so many different ways. Some of us bring things to life with words, others with music, or food, or fabric. Some are artists with paint or pen and ink, while others create beauty with their cameras.
Today, I’d like to celebrate a variety of creative ways in which our women took the lessons they learned this semester and made them their own.
From our Redeemed Women class, Nancy used her love of fabric to create this reminder for herself:
Each woman she studied was represented by a different swatch of material.
Here’s a close-up of her rendition of Jezebel.
Her classmate, Wendy, chose to remember the Biblical women in drawings. Here are a few of the women she drew:
Each as unique as the women themselves.
And finally, from our Ruth class, Mikki summed up what she’d learned about her own life story in a poem. Its message is appropriate to what we’ve seen here today. As you read it, celebrate the YOU God made you to be and enjoy!
I Am Who God Made Me
God made me
Created me
Loved me without conditions
He crafted my mind
my personality
my emotions
my being
God accepts me
knows me
sees me
loves me
cares about me . . . me!
I don’t have to prove myself
be someone I’m not
be perfect
or act perfect.
He accepts me.
God knows my heart
my desire to be more
more like Him and less like me.
But He likes me anyway,
Even when I don’t like myself,
He loves me.
His love sets me free
It anchors my soul
And creates a peace that I truly can’t understand.
But I accept it.
It makes me smile.
It brings tears to my eyes.
I don’t deserve it!
I haven’t worked hard enough for it!
I’m not disciplined enoughnot faithful enough
not holy enough
not worth it . . .
But, it’s not about me!
It’s about my Savior!
The One who created me and saved me.
Who took these sins, these ugly thoughts
Took them far away
Sacrificed Himself for me.
I love you Jesus.
You.
You lead me through my inadequacies
my failures
my feeble attempts.
You give me true love
true companionship
true acceptance.
You know I long for relationships,
deep ones
meaningful, spirit-filled relationships.
My expectations rise
Often to fall short
But not with You.
When I listen
When I acknowledge
When I stop, stay still, sit in solitude,I feel You
I am filled by YouHoly Spirit, my heart is filled.
You know me
You love me
You accept me
I am who I am because of You.
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