This year I took some time to dive into stories about women in the Hebrew Bible in a series of… Read more Widow of Zarephath: Her Interaction with God and God’s love for Single Moms (Part Three)
Month: November 2022
The Widow of Zarephath: A Woman of Valor (Part Two)
A woman of valor is exactly how subsequent rabbis describe the Widow. And that is truly beautiful. They use Proverbs 31:20 to describe the Widow as a woman whose “hands are stretched out to the needy.”
God Knew the Widow of Zarephath (Part One)
It shows that God knew of and was aware of the Widow of Zarephath, her heart, her great potential for faith, her charity, and also her desperate situation. He knew her, a non-Israelite, a non-believer, and that’s important. He knew she needed help and designed a path for her to gain that help by helping others.
Voice
You are nothing. You are too much. Nobody wants to hear from you. Nothing you say matters. Nobody. Wants. To. Hear. From. You. It’s the harmony of different voices and different people over the years crystalizing into one overwhelming crescendo.
Stop! My internal scream leaves everything silent. My own thoughts deaden. The crescendo abruptly halts. I matter. My voice matters.
Hate and Fear
Hate and fear. One day, we’ll banish you. One day, we’ll eradicate you. One day, we’ll transcend you.
Ember of Self-Love
And the answer came like a small ember: I did love that broken, “hateable” version of myself. And yes I was worth loving even then. And I was more than that failure, even then, when I was in the middle of it.
This small ember of pure self-love was something I’d never had before. That ember has since grown into a roaring flame.
Twitter: Explusion and loss of community
Excerpt: A lot of people have written about the implosion of Twitter. What strikes me the most is the forced expulsion.
Being a Woman in Public
Excerpt: It’s where I came to expect that the tax for being a woman in the public space was to be groped, and experience touch you had not asked for, that was unwanted, and that left you confused.
Here we go again!
Excerpt: Do you have a blog? Do you have somewhere other than Facebook where I can read this? Do you have a more public space where you can share your thoughts?
Half Drafted 