Through the lens of Woman
In the beginning — a good world on purpose
The first chapter of the Bible does something extraordinary and often missed. It puts a woman in the image of God.
In the world Genesis was written into, that was not a given. Most creation stories of the Ancient Near East reserved divine likeness for kings, for warriors, for a narrow slice of maleness. Genesis 1:27 opens the floor: male and female, he made them, in his own image.
If you have been handed a version of faith that treats you as secondary, as a support role, as the quiet one in the background — you were handed a version that is not Genesis.
You were made on purpose. You carry God’s image without adjustment, without footnote, without permission from anyone. What you do with a day matters because you matter, not because someone attached importance to it after the fact.
One thing to carry today: whatever room you walk into, walk in knowing the image of God came in with you. You don’t have to earn the space. It was given.