“The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.” ~Ann Voskamp

You can do hard and holy things. I can too. The world might say something different but honestly, can we all just agree that the world can be a bit wrong sometimes?

Maybe a lot of the time?

Maybe the irony of telling women they’re beautiful just as they are, while selling them the latest firming cream, is so entrenched that we don’t actually notice it. Maybe the fact that even as we’re empowered to find our voices and speak up, less than 20% of the voices in the 114th US Congress are ours doesn’t really register.

Maybe we’ve just all gotten used to doing our hair instead of doing what the world needs us to do.

And maybe it’s time to stop that.

Maybe the hard and holy thing we need to do is just believe that we actually do matter, that we actually are okay, that we actually are beautiful and amazing and loved just as we are.

Maybe the hard and holy thing we need to do is just ignore what the world is saying and embrace what Jesus says about us. Loved. Worthy. Beautiful.

Maybe the hard and holy thing we need to do is do more supporting and less judging, more lifting up and less putting down, more coming together to find common ground and less planting seeds of division.

Maybe the hard and holy thing we need to do is tell our daughters, our sisters, our mothers, our friends, and ourselves the truth about ourselves – that in His eyes we are so much more than anything the world might say, that we really can do hard and holy things.

And maybe it’s time we start doing them.

~xo,
LuAnne