there's always someone throwin' matches around.

"It is not Christlike to shrink in subservience or cower in insecurity. Some women wait indefinitely for a man, another woman, anyone else to fix things, start things, dream things. She doesn't acknowledge her intellect or her ability to implement it. There is no sense of initiative, no stirrings of vision. Had this been Tamar's position, she would've died a widow in her father's house, having no part in the lineage of Christ. Through her story, I am inspired with challenge and resolve. Some of us need to hand over the helpless card and stand on the two good legs God gave us. It's time to activate our smarts and instead of waiting for a solution, become the solution."

"While the devil keeps women sidelined with insecurity and complacency, every soul awaiting our intervention suffers--our children and husbands, the poor and oppressed, our local and international community. We are the answer to so many problems, sisters, yet scores are unwilling to fight."

"I assumed that if God was that clear, I better just do it and let Him worry over the impossibilities. Faith is rather dumb like that."

It is high time I take back what was taken from me. Taken from me with my permission, but nonetheless taken. Robbed. It is time for the tape to come off of my mouth. Time for the dreams to awake me in the mornings again with a new sense of direction and hope. Time to be the girl I was before all of this nonsense convinced me otherwise. There is a world out there with people who need me to be fully and wholly me. It is time to regain consciousness. It is time. Armed with a most powerful force, we are unstoppable. Let the rain come and wash it all away.