For All the Wise Women in my Life

I've attended church

ALL my life

I've heard at least
(AT LEAST)
an average of one sermon

a week

not counting all the sermons lived out

in the lives of people I admire

60 years x 52 weeks each year

I've heard in surplus of

three thousand

one hundred

and twenty

sermons preached

no doubt

by dozens or hundreds of preachers

For the first ~half of my life

all those preachers would have been men

For the second ~half of my life

almost all those preachers would have been women

(including some transgender women)

I can say

with complete and utter confidence that

FAR and away

not even close

in any way

whatsoever

the very best sermons I've heard

the best preachers and teachers I've heard

the most compelling prophets and

words of wisdom I've heard

have been from

women

Period

And so

if it happens that there are some

men

who believe that women

can't teach

preach

be prophets calling down holy fire

and who try to stop words of wisdom

from the wisest and strongest

well

they are damned fools

End of my poor sermon

A Woman could have preached it better