I was called, like Jeremiah, to speak the words of God, and it was a fire in my bones that I could not shut up.

But I couldn’t? Could I? I, a woman, could not speak, preach, or teach the Scriptures to a mixed group of men and women, certainly not from a pulpit on Sunday morning! But… why not?

There are realities we cannot see, truths we cannot touch.

I’ve had conversations with those who struggle with the intangibility of faith. “But how do I know that the Bible is true? How do I know that Jesus really lived? How do I know…”

Over the past three years, personality typing and strengths has become somewhat of a hobby interest of mine, not least because I struggled so long to accept my own personality, strengths, and gifts.

“Have you spent so much time and energy trying to meet others' expectations of you that you forgot what you really want for yourself?”

“Vocation does not mean a goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear. Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”

— Parker J. Palmer