Dear God, I Wish You Were a Woman

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Trust in God; She will provide. -- Emmeline Pankhurst

Dear God,

I wish you were a woman

Because since I was a girl

I’ve pictured you as a white man

With white hair

Dressed in a long white robe.

And I am not a man

And my skin is a shade of deep chocolate brown.

So how can I believe that I was created in your image?

Dear God,

I wish you were a woman

Because sometimes feminism feels like my religion.

Because conversations with other women fill me with the Holy Ghost

More than any church service ever has.

Because the pro-woman words of my favorite girl power anthems

Move me more than any hymn ever could.

Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes.

This is my Apostle's Creed.

Dear God,

I wish you were a woman so I could stop whispering the words,

"She so loved the world"

And start boldly proclaiming them instead.

Dear God,

Sometimes I believe you are a woman

Sometimes I believe that feminine, yet fierce, yet friendly voice

That I hear in my heart

That I hear in my head

Guiding me, comforting me, cheering me on

That voice that as I child I thought must be the imaginary friend adults said I should have

That voice that as a woman I thought was proof that I was losing my mind

Sometimes -- I believe that voice is You.

I think.

I hope.

I pray.