About Yesterday

 I am a huge fan of gathering with women. And not only that—if there’s a discussion of the Word of God mixed in somewhere, I’m the happiest Word Girl in the room.

However, I find it challenging to gather in spaces where the narrative of empowerment is rooted primarily in yesterday’s wounds. Sifting through words that don’t build up, encourage, or foster meaningful connection can make our time together feel more like a box to check than a moment to truly embrace.

Too often, attention is given to narratives centered on yesterday’s trauma or lingering unforgiveness. This becomes evident when conversations begin to tear others down while elevating self, or when the value of another person is overlooked—regardless of race, tribe, origin, or background.

Joining narratives based on someone else’s yesterday cannot be our story, ladies. We are survivors—living proof that our standards are built on the stable foundation of God’s Word.

We don’t adopt another person’s words as our own simply because they make sense to our broken places.

We are builders who have made yesterday’s hard places a foundation for the Word of God to establish our future.

We raise the standard.
We represent grace under pressure.
We hold our faith tightly, even in moments of doubt.

The Word of God has been made alive in your story, in my story. Real, Biblical empowerment comes from living according to that Truth—even in the most difficult hardships, even when yesterday tries to speak louder.

Lies and deception do not twist our identities.

We are smart thinkers.
We have hidden the Word in our hearts, and we know how to recognize a trap.
We understand that our feelings are real, but they often do not tell the whole Truth.

Choosing to believe any other “truth” means the real Truth never made it to the yesterday of our stories. That’s not who we are.

Jesus displayed empowerment through humility.

Jesus taught us to die to self daily.
Embracing the broken soul defines our gatherings.
Asking for and giving forgiveness leads the way—from our yesterdays into our tomorrows.
Choosing kindness over judgment every single time is the mark of a Wise Word Girl.
Refusing to dominate, self-protect, and celebrate emotional victories defines the lady who is following Jesus closely.

Where the “empowerment” movement builds walls, Jesus calls us to forgiveness, humility, restoration, and surrender to God.

True Biblical empowerment deeply touches and reminds us that we are no longer controlled by the wounds of yesterday.

Scripture shapes our identity.
Truth shapes our decisions.
Faith shapes our responses to pain.

We become a testimony of God’s resurrection power at work in our lives instead of a reaction to the broken places of trauma, rejection, or fear.

And maybe that’s where this all comes to rest—right back at yesterday.

Yesterday may have held pain, rejection, or moments we wish we could rewrite.

It may have tried to shape our voice, our reactions, even our identity.

But yesterday does not get the final say. It never has.

Because when the Word of God takes root in us, yesterday is no longer a place we live from—it becomes a place where we grow toward a life built on trust.

Yesterday becomes a testimony, not a tether.
Yesterday becomes a reminder of God’s faithfulness, not a reason to stay bound.
Yesterday becomes the soil where grace grew.

So when we sit together, speak together, and pray together—we are not women shaped by wounds, but women refined by Truth.

And that is the difference.

Because we are not “about yesterday”…
we are about redemption, renewal, and the power of God still at work in us today.