And when you learn, over the course of your life, that it's not about pleasing God, it's about learning how to trust God. That's a huge watershed, because trust is a whole different ballgame than appeasement or pleasing.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.

If anything matters, then everything matters.

You cannot produce trust just like you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not.