Day 26 – No Signature Required – Jan 26, 2026

Come in.

You were there.

Where is she?

This needs to get done now.

Who’s the author?

Whose idea was it?

We need his signature.

She’s a great team player.

He’s such a great influence.

She made a great contribution.

He made such a difference.

She stayed late.

He reinvented everything.

Silencing is subtler than erasure.

It looks like inclusion.

It sounds like permission.

It feels like progress.

No one removed her.

They just managed her.

Invited her in,

then decided where her voice should stop.

Inclusion without influence is easy to justify.

It lets systems feel generous

without surrendering authority.

Presence is welcomed.

Interpretation is managed.

Contribution is accepted,

as long as it doesn’t redirect the story.

This is where the tension lives.

And I’m glad God does not wait

for institutional permission

to work through me.

He works through presence, not position.

Through formation, not force.

Through the ones who remain

when others rush to claim credit.

Because here’s the thing

Scripture refuses to hide:

Women change things anyway.

They carry the story

when power is busy managing it.

They hold life together

while someone else signs the page.

They don’t need the title

to move the narrative forward.

They don’t need the credit

to alter the outcome.

Still here.

Still steady.

Still changing things.

And the story cannot continue

without her, or without me.