Girls don’t get the credit they deserve sometimes.  Seriously, there is still a societal expectation that ya’ll aren’t quite as good as the boys.

I had a conversation with my friend Cat last year…she was taking a college course and they were comparing salaries.  You guessed it- you people with less parts make less money.

You’re good, but not great.  You’re cool, but not the best.  You’re about 80% of us men.  Pound-for-pound, most people will hire a dude.  Talented, but not the cream of the crop.  Creative, but not revolutionary.  Neat, but not extraordinary.

Here’s a break-through idea:  Don’t even bother to prove them wrong.

It’s not worth the effort, and it only supports the assumption that you need man’s approval for who God made you to be.  You end up trying to just be more like the men around you.  How screwed up is that?!

A great example of this is in the car business.  It’s a very old-school, boy’s club, male-dominated profession.  The women are few and far between, and guess what?  The ones that do make act just like guys.  They come in here and they’re loud and they swear and they drink and they act just like dudes.  Consistently.  It’s very weird.  Thing is…you can feel the insecurity.  You can see it’s a mask.  That they have to protect themselves from (and prove themselves to) the not-so-nice men of the car business.

Try this one on for size:
God created you for something special.  Something specific.  Something great.  It might be big or it might be small, but it will be great.  He created you to be like His boy…Jesus.  He didn’t make a mistake by making you a wonderful woman.  He didn’t mix things up.  You’re not a screw-up.  He planned you this way.  So here’s an idea instead:

Prove God right.

So girl, what you got?