Betrothed to Mystery: What Does a Woman Called by God Look Like? – Full-of-Grace

Betrothed to Mystery: What Does a Woman Called by God Look Like?

This is my Virtual Temple, where crimson silk meets sacred stole, where the color of life itself dares to approach the holy. I host sacrum in the wrapped folds of this dress, in the gathering of fabric at my waist like prayers shepherded and held close. Where feminine boldness dares to approach the holy, not through permission but through profound inner knowing.

The cross at my throat marks me as claimed, yet free. I return to Bethlehem – house of bread, house of poverty, house of promise – not because it welcomes me, but because it cannot help but birth new life.

I see my fleshness and I doubt my calling. Good. Let that doubt shake my certainties about what holiness looks like. Let this crimson dress remind me that God clothes the evening sky in glory and that feminine beauty need not be buried to be blessed. I stand at this crossroads, where the signpost points only two ways – working or prayer, world or convent, secular or sacred. But I believe Jesus is the way and He’s blazing a third path, unmarked on any sign.