While working with women and talking to them over the cup of tea, I have noticed that for us, women, the most captivating activity is continuous growth and improvement. To do more, to love more, to learn more, to dress-up more, to take on more responsibilities in church, to organize more, to worry more and also to get tired more. When we get tired, we think about how to rest more, love ourselves more and live healthier, to accept ourselves more and at the end we start thinking about how impossible it is to accomplish all that.
It just seems that we, Latvian women, who are so beautiful, strong and smart, are missing something that can never be fulfilled and that we just can’t stop. Will it be enough at some point or will there always be something we’d like to get rid of? Possibly, it’s an ancient habit of ours – to look in a crooked mirror. However, if we’d look into God’s mirror for a moment, what would it show? What would it answer if asked questions like „Am I really important to you?”, „Am I really beautiful?”, „Am I after all special to you?”
In this conference we will start talking about a woman’s identity in God. We will try to answer questions about true womanhood, power of a woman and her influence. We will talk about loneliness, relationships, woman’s beauty at different ages and about fear to follow one’s heart. We will hear true stories, worship God and, most importantly, allow ourselves to celebrate womanhood! Maybe it’s time to ask ourselves a question not about what we don’t have but about what we already have!
It takes courage to look into God’s mirror and ask these questions. During the conference wonderful ladies like Shelly Cook Volkardt and her team from USA along with Gita Medne, Sarah Ilsters, Linda Kalniņa, Dana Kalniņa, Anete Kozlovska and others will help each one of us to do that.
See you on March 8th and 9th!
Lienīte Bēmera
Nodibinājums „Partneri” director
Theologian and psychotherapist
