I have always had a burden for women. I guess this is what happens when you grow up seeing many of your female role-models sell themselves short or stay in abusive situations due to factors such as tradition, control and low self-worth. As much as my elders loved me and invested me with great skills and values, I didn't have any older women (in my immediate circle) that I really looked at and felt that I wanted to be like; or have relationships similar to. I knew this to be true of most of the people in my social circle too; yet I saw many women of my age group taking up the mantle of our fore-runners and repeating their history. Not wanting to fall victim to projected social norms myself, I became really interested in comparing these notions to what the Bible had to say about topics such as women and womanhood. I also became really interested to see whether there were any feminine representations of God, other than the ones I knew about at the time, that I could model myself after. This led me to start going through the Bible looking at each woman and the spiritual truths that we can garner from their stories. The first installment of this book series is about Eve and will be completed by the end of 2016.

It is my belief that if women developed more of a consciousness of who they are in Christ and His purpose for them, some of the situations that I witnessed growing up would cease to be so prevalent. As such, I want to bring together more stories promoting the women of the Bible and the personal testimonies of modern Christian women (we need more role-models; who better than matriarchs of the faith- past and present?). To do this, I am launching "The Far Above Rubies Collection"- a website and community that aims to fill the gap of this need. If interested in contributing, feel free to email me: [email protected]

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