International Women's Day 2023

In Scripture, when God created man, He did not create a person with no gender. He made a distinction: man and woman. 

“And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 

And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."  (Genesis 2:21-23 KJV) 

Since 1908, women have been demanding for better conditions in workplaces. Two years later, Clara Zetkin, leader of the “women's office” for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, proposed in a conference the celebration every year of an International Women's Day—to press for demands.

And so on March 8 this year, we again celebrated this special day. 

While I agree that women have less say in all aspects of politics and the economy, I celebrate the day not to push for reforms but to thank the Lord for creating women. We have been given roles to play, as outlined in the Bible.     

This year, I am grateful to the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) for featuring women writers, whose books they carry, in an exhibit. 

The books I write are of grace; by grace, at the NLP, more readers will find them and be reminded of their own gifts of grace.