Day 1 - The Heart of a Woman

This six-day reading plan is designed to help you discover what God meant when He made you.

What does it mean to be a woman? What is my calling in life? What does God value? What does He want from me? What do I want? Is that okay?

We are not carbon copies of each other. God loves diversity, and He has fashioned each one of us uniquely. It is a very good thing to know that we are not alone on this journey of life; we have much more in common with each other—simply because we are women—than we don’t. We share more than most of us realize.

For instance, we have a feminine heart. We have to start there, because as the Scriptures tell us, the heart is the center of it all.

“God created man in His own image . . . male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27). Think about it, God created you as a woman. Whatever it means to bear God’s image, you do so as a woman. That’s how and where you bear his image. Not in your body. The Trinity does not have a body. No, you bear God’s image in your heart.

Your feminine heart has been created with the greatest of all possible dignities—as a reflection of God’s own heart. You are a woman to your soul, to the very core of your being. The journey to discover what God meant when He created women in His image—when He created you as His woman—that journey begins with your heart. The journey begins with desire.

The stories we love reveal much of the secret desires in our hearts. If you take a close look, and talk with the women in your life, you’ll find that we share themes in our core desires. They are not all that we want and they play out differently in our lives, but in her heart of hearts, every woman longs to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a heroic adventure, and to unveil beauty. In these desires that we bear the image of our God.