woman on staff at our center that she believes women’s menstrual cycles have given women, in particular, an experiential and cellular understanding of this experience. Because they shed blood monthly for the sake of life, and also give blood and water at birth, just as Jesus did on the cross (John 19:34). Of course! This “water and blood” had always struck me as strange symbolism. But maybe not for a woman, who knows the price of birth.
