The beginning of the human family, is God's Word to mankind that they would be Male and Female. Our gender is an eternal fact about our human nature. And yet both of these modalities of Male and Female, are given as 'talents' for manifestation of the One and same light - Christ in us. As Paul says: "There is longer male or female, but all are one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:28). This knowledge frees us to embrace the gift of our gender, including the unique strengths and limitations of it, as we go forth and do the good works God has uniquely prepared for us to do in our gendered humanity.