God Girl Coming to Richmond, VA’s WomanKind Conference Next Month

Howdy friends and Happy New Year to you all!

It’s been a while since I’ve had a public engagement to tell you about and am delighted to tell you about my upcoming participation as a workshop presenter for WomanKind 2012 in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 17-18.

The event, which is sponsored every two years by St. James Episcopal Church is themed this year “Holy Mysteries.” The organizers describe it thusly: “Daily life is full of questions without answers, of things unknown or seemingly unknowable…”

For the 21st century woman, taught to find answers and create solutions in her hectic everyday life, mystery can be vexing. WomanKind 2012 invites participants not to resist, but to embrace, life’s mysteries.

Krista Tippett, host of public radio’s “On Being” and author of Einstein’s God: Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit, will open the fifth annual WomanKind with a keynote address on “The Art and Mystery of Living.” The Rev. Dr. Lauren Winner, Episcopal priest and author of Girl Meets God, will preach at the closing Eucharist.

In between, six widely recognized and accomplished women will lead workshops on a broad range of practical and spiritual topics with everyday implications for better living — including parenting, religious diversity, surviving loss, questioning faith and finding balance. Don’t miss this opportunity to be nourished and inspired.

WomanKind was conceived by the Episcopal Church Women of St. James’s Episcopal Church as a way to bring together women in all our diversity to share our experiences, insights and questions on the path toward spiritual renewal. This event draws more than 500 people from around the country to Richmond, Virginia every two years. Space is limited and workshops are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

The workshops I’ll be leading on Saturday morning and afternoon are titled, “GRACESPOTTING.”

Learn to recognize God’s fingerprints in your life story, spotting those grace

moments or “God nods” in your life. We all have them – if we tune in with

the eyes and ears of our hearts and minds, we will better be able to understand

the story of our life that God alone is writing.

TO REGISTER FOR WOMANKIND 2012, CLICK HERE.