Sugar & Spice and Everything Nice

by Vida Visagar

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of.
What about grown-up girls? What about women? What about us?

You are patiently and perfectly fashioned and God created you
beautifully. You are a woman of God. These are the words came into my
mind one morning as I was getting ready for office. “What is woman of
God made of?” I wondered if we can have the topic one household
meeting, but the upper household brothers might get disinterested (the
same way we would if they talk about machismo muscles with six pack
abs like layered hot cakes, gross…)

A sisters overnight fellowship would be the best venue to discover the answer to the question. The fellowship was arranged last September 22 to 23 with the theme: Discover Your True Beauty.

Earlier during the day of fellowship, 9:00am at the ICC formation center, our September birthday celebrants shared their blessings to the kids attending the regular Saturday Soup Kitchen as their way of saying thank you for another wonderful year God has given them. The little angels responded with a big smile to the little
and simple things they received from their kuya’s and ate’s. Every child was excited with the presents. Thanks to our generous birthday celebrators who shared their time and resources to make this gift giving possible for the kids.

Later in the day, 6:00pm, everything was set as the sisters started to arrive at the venue. Thanks sister Ann for opening your home for our sisters for the fellowship. The activities started with giving the sisters some practical tips on how to look good by putting simple make-up and by using readily available and natural beauty products without spending too much - care of our sister Nette. The next activity showcased our unit heads Wen and Mina sharing their top cooking secrets in making lasagna & ham & cheese roll (delisyoso!). After dinner, sister Rhia entertained the sisters with an acoustic performance of her self-compositions, kilig moment iyon! The sisters were then introduced to the skill of scrapbook making, as sister Joanne
fondly shared her memories and the story behind their family scrapbook.

Finally the time of being intimate with our God came. What can a woman of GOD offer? And why do we easily cry? As I listened to the sharings of the sisters, it was revealed to me that individually, we are undergoing certain pruning - in struggling to become good daughters, in loving unconditionally, in loving more and loving till it hurts, in fighting for what we believe in, in trying not to compromise our faith in spite of pressure, in letting go of temporary pleasures and joys as we patiently wait for our true love. I also realized that our tears are the expression of our happiness, our pain, our grief and our love

The ICC SFC sisters are all women of God because He created us after His own image. He even took overtime to create us perfectly and beautifully. We are special because women are the extension of God’s emotions and even as we grow up into different shapes and sizes, we are still God’s little daughters. HUA!