Bobbit and Stirek: Women, God delights in you!
February 21, 2012 in Featured Rotator, Guest Blog by Karen Bobbit
“God delights in you!” was the theme for the Second Annual Women’s Morning of Spirituality (WMOS) shared with 1100 women on February 18, 2012 at the Catholic Church of the Incarnation.
As the talks began, we were assured of God’s merciful and boundless love for the women we are, just as we are, and this love could transform our hearts and lives if we were open to change. “Renewed by God’s love” was the title of the talk presented by our local speaker, Babetta Gray who drew in the audience by talking of her love for Helen Reddy’s song, “I Am Woman Hear Me Roar” as a teenager in the 1970’s. Many of us laughed as we identified with the message of the song that recognition, prestige, power, money were what was important. Her life took an abrupt when she realized that what is really important is a personal relationship with Christ. Laughter changed to tears as she shared her experiences of how Christ transformed her. Gray described grace that is poured out through the sacraments. She also talked about her experience in the gentle way our Blessed Mother leads us to her beloved son, Jesus Christ.
After Gray spoke, our keynote speaker, Tammy Evevard filled the women once again with some good old “catholic guilt” and addressed how our culture exploits our worth through phrases such as, “I’m not enough,” or “be better…better…better…never enough.” Through her topic, “Becoming,” she reminded us that Jesus treated women with respect, dignity, honor and love. To God, we are enough as we are. To illustrate her point, she held a bag of sunflower seeds in her hands and reminded us that we have everything within us, just as a tiny seed, to bloom into what God has called us to be. Tammy shares many of her stories in her book “Becoming the Woman God Made You to Be.”
Bishop Steib hammered home the theme as he addressed the women at Mass. “Sisters, Isn’t that why we came early this morning to the Church of the Incarnation – to be renewed in God’s love?” He closed the morning by saying, “God is good…all the time. All the time…God is good.”
We came as individuals and left as disciples.
Victoria Stirek is the Director of Religious Education at Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Karen Bobbitt is a member of Queen of Peace Catholic church.





