As my self-perception and understanding of what it means to be woman was being healed and transformed, so also was my perception of God. Early in sabbatical I had the sense that God wanted to reintroduce God’s self to me. Since so much of my understanding of God was shaped by masculine influence, my understanding was limited. And the distance I felt from God was caused in part by this misunderstanding. If God is perceived as male and men are often overpowering and all-pervasive, then there’s no room for me as a woman in relationship to God or men. But here was this revelation of God in Jesus who, as a man, doesn’t overpower, overshadow or impose himself. Though Jesus could fill the space of the world and is certainly self-sufficient, he restrains himself with remarkable discipline and control to make room for the other—all others, all of his creation. And he doesn’t stop there. Making room for the other, he invites us into a relationship of mutuality—giving and also receiving. Incredible. If the God of the universe can make room for me and recei