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enough to keep me going.

I started to see kindness in His
drawing out the women of old
during the days of their flow, to
come away from the camp, away
from the matters that would
take their attention away from
His Spirit. Each month He would
lovingly draw them to Himself and
tend to them in their misery and
then perform a ritual cleansing
of renewal, as a precursor to
the arrival of the Lamb of God,
the One Who would wash them
permanently clean in His flow.
I started to understand the renewal
of the womb in expectation and
Menstruation. The Key to Life. hope that suddenly life could
emerge to be carried for nine

The Mysteries of God concealed in the menstrual flow months to full term. The upward
calling to never take our eyes
BY: CHIOMA PHILLIPS off the future return of the One
Who has been promised to us,
Out of all of God’s creation, none is I KNOW You Are real, You Have whose promise we carry in our
so aptly suited to understanding, become my heart’s desire and wombs in eternal hope, birthing
bearing and birthing the mysteries I do not want a life without You - life and peace and righteousness
of God as the female. Brought yet these seeming contradictions in ourselves and every life we
forth into the pain and anguish and exist within my very womb!!” encounter, in preparation for the
dominion of living underneath the “What of ‘out of my belly will flow fulfillment of our longing only to
feet of the man as a result of the rivers of living water? Yet what is be made one with the King. Never
curse of God brought about by the this fount of blood and seeming dropping that seed of hope.
deception of Eve by the serpent, futility? Without understanding God also began to reveal to me
she has endured many sufferings I have often cried. I have seen or the contrast between Law and
at the hands of God’s creation. heard of people who have been in Spirit; and to expose His heart of
But one mystery has always excruciating agony during the ebb compassion towards His children
eluded me, what I had viewed as and flow of this marker of seasons. (yes, women included) particularly
the suffering of the menstrual flow, Even hospitalized. Many to whom in the story of the woman who
which, like the curse, came not its arrival, myself included, has had the issue of blood for twelve
from man, but from God Himself. been a reminder of the seeming years (Luke 8). This woman, who
Not many things have appeared barrenness and unproductiveness had been failed by the system,
as pointless or even unjust to me, and therefore failure of what I desperate and at the risk of death
especially since coming to know saw as my kind. Its absence often by stoning (as per the law) came
the Lord some years ago from a causes just as much misery and and touched just the fringes of
position of not acknowledging pain as its presence. His mercy and power and received
Him or even wanting to know Why, God? Why? Why us? Why healing from His wings. A loving
Him. Imagine my dismay when I this? Lord, why? Father watched over His daughter
stumbled upon Leviticus 15:19- as she made her way through
32 in the Bible (which I was not But God, in His infinite mercy a crowd of her potential killers
familiar with having been an revealed just a touch of Himself, towards His Son and gave her
atheist for about 16 years by enough to make me understand healing (Life), by her faith (meaning
then). I didn’t even know how that there had to be more to this she was following His directive).
to talk to God about it, I felt so flow of blood than meets the eye. See the picture of salvation there?
betrayed. How I have cried to God, Love that He IS and God too, He It showed me the sovereignty and
“why put this thing in me and then enticed me with the mystery of mercy of God, Who sent virtue
call it impure?” “why set me aside what menstruation could mean, forth from His Son, unbeknownst
with despise?” “was it not You dropping gleanings for me in the to His Beloved Son to His loving
Who created me? And now that field of Boaz (kinsman Redeemer) daughter who had sought only

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