I give thanks for women I give thanks for women. For women who have questioned what others called natural. For women who have refused the narrow shapes prepared for them. For women who have widened the world. I give thanks for courage that would not stay quiet, for truth that would not stay hidden, for lives that have said: there is more room than this. And because of that, the world has started to open. Because women have challenged what was fixed into rule, others have found breath. Others have found space. Even men have been given more freedom to step beyond the stiff costume handed to them, to lay down the old performance, to become more honest, more tender, more fully alive. And still, so much remains to be done. There are old expectations that cling on. Old fears that still police our lives. Old patterns that keep trying to tell us who we are meant to be. So I give thanks for women whose strength has not only changed their own lives, but has helped make life safer for others to be themselves. And I pray for courage to keep widening the world - until nobody is trapped by the roles they were handed, and each of us has more room to live with truth, with gentleness, with freedom. Amen.
For International Women’s Day #internationalwomensday
