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Tom’s message was simple: each and every one of us is invited to encounter a God who loves, chooses, and visits us.

With evangelical churches often consisting of more than half of its members and volunteers being women, we see the fruit and faithfulness each and every week, and yet when it comes to the conversation about women in the Church it often gets hijacked with arguments around roles, office, and title, and in so doing we miss a bigger conversation around celebrating, equipping, and affirming the roles of women in our churches.

You can see where God has been at work and what He has brought you through. You will be reminded that what felt so devastating or challenging earlier in the year is now behind you, and you are the better for it.

Forgive what you can in the moment. When God makes something right, there is true restoration, healing, forgiveness, and change.

Karen Smith credits much of that growth to how well the longtime members have welcomed new, younger members., Both groups have proven they're willing to compromise and adapt.

The routes we walk—rhythms of embodied presence and prayerful listening to the small world outside our front door— help me to notice the small, and not-so-small, shifts in our season of life.

When we seek God, we discover that—through the invitations of Jesus—God’s love sought and found us first.

Do not settle for longing for the past or even managing what is now. Instead, rise and lead.