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Two: Beautiful Warriors

In all these things we are more than conquerors 

through him who loved us. 

(Romans 8:37)

Some days life feels like a showdown with an awkward elementary school bully—the enemy of our hearts, the teller of the lies we’re tempted to believe. Perhaps if this battle were mine alone I might just let the bully keep on shoutin’. But I don’t believe this battle is only about me. 

It’s about all my sisters. It’s about all my daughters. It’s about every woman in this world. Because every time one of us wins, we all do. We silence the roar of darkness a little more. We make it a bit harder for that bully to try something on one of us again. 

We will all have days when we’re white-hot mad we have to go another round. We will all have moments when we want to run right on home. We will all have seasons when it seems easier just to take it. 

But that isn’t our destiny. We are tree-swingers and baby-rockers and mountain- movers. We are girls. We are women. We are daughters of Eve in a fallen world. This means we will never stop being under attack. But it also means we will never—Dear Jesus, may we never—stop fighting back.

Let’s be unexpected warriors, love ninjas, secret agents of grace in the kitchen and the boardrooms and by the swings on the playground.