Strong, Brave, Loved by Holley GerthSample

Day Seven

Embrace Your Story

Scripture: Philippians 1:6

We, fiercehearted women, are all living a story today. A story crafted and told by the Author of heaven. The star-scatterer. The mountain-mover. The water-walker. It is a story of being brave and strong and loved. A story of, most of all, love. 

In the day-to-day, it doesn’t feel like a story. It feels like dishes in the sink. Reports on the desk. Another mile behind the steering wheel of the car. But this doesn’t change what’s real. Beneath the surface of all that ordinary still shines the glory. 

Sometimes the plot is confusing. Or strange. Or sad. Sometimes we want to cut out a chapter with sharp scissors. Sometimes we want to be the editors with the red ink. Sometimes we want to skip right to the end just to make sure it says, “And they lived happily ever after.” 

But this is not our role. It is not for us to say, “This is what happens next” or “I’m changing the ending.” Instead, we are to trust, to wait, to be in the middle of the mystery. There is so much we do not know, that we will not know, but we can be certain of this: the Author is good and we are loved. 

Yes, even when the unexpected sentence comes. When we face that dark-as-night period. When the syllables jumble together and we scratch our heads. Even in those places, between those lines, there is a God at work who has always been speaking, always been creating beauty out of the broken. 

Jesus is not done with history. He is not finished with the part of it that is our story either. Whatever scene we find ourselves in today, it is not the final page. Hold on, there is a turning coming. There is more than this, more than here and now. We have not yet seen the there and then. 

We are overcomers. We are warriors. And whatever the future brings, our God is still holding the pen. He is the only one who gets to write, “The End.” 

God, You are the Author of our lives. You are writing a powerful story of grace in and through us. Help us be fiercehearted women for You every day, on every page of our lives. We love You. Amen.