Do you have a sister? I do. My sister and I were the only two children in our family. We had no other sisters or brothers. She was born just a little over three years after my birth. There are sweet photos of me holding her when she was just a baby, a smile a mile wide crossing my face. I was a proud sister, I was the older sister. As such, as we grew, I felt responsible for showing her the way things should be done, as most older sisters do. You should see the videos that we made. You should hear the cassette tape recordings. If you did you would likely hear me bossing her around, just like most older sisters do. I remember her screaming that she hated me more than once, and it reducing me to tears, my mom telling me that I was too sensitive. Maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. What would you do if your only sister said that to you? Oh, and my mom was the younger of two sisters, which might explain that statement.
I am happy to tell you that young adulthood came and we became friends. I went away to college. She would call me. We would talk for such a long time, like we never had when I lived at home. When it was time for her to decide where to attend college, she followed me. I have been blessed by her witness throughout the last several years of our lives and have watched her become a beautiful bride and loving mother to two daughters of her own. She is a beautiful example of Christ’s work in a person’s life.
A sister is a funny thing. She can awaken your soul with her honesty. She can build you up with just a smile and an embrace. We all need a woman like that in our lives. Maybe you don’t have a biological sister, but let me assure you that you have sisters! This community will awaken your soul with the honest voice of each woman who contributes. It will build you up and encourage you. We will walk through this journey together and love one another as Christ has called us to do. We are family. We are daughters of the living King. We are sisters.