God's Wonder Woman: Religious and Spiritual Tips for Women

O Lord, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue,
O Lord, you know it completely. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. – Psalm 139:1-6 (NRSV)

These verses remind me of how I thought of my mother when I was a child. She seemed to not only have eyes in the back of her head, she also knew what I was thinking, and what I was about to say before I even formed the words in my mouth – at least 9 times out of ten! And of course, because she carried me in her womb, she did know me intimately – we were at one time one being, divinely planned, formed and nurtured by a loving God. And how did my father always know what was going to happen next on the television program we happened to be watching together? Now that I am a woman, with grown children of my own, I understand the source of that seeming omnipotent wisdom and foreknowledge – it’s called life experience!

We are each made in God’s divine image, bounding into the world gasping for that first life-sustaining breath, like the one God breathed into Adam at creation. Too often, though, we realize our vision of that divinity – and our own divine purpose that transcends the here and now of carpools and grocery shopping, PTA meetings and all the other to-do list items that make up our day has been lost – or never even had a chance to develop.