There’s so many things I’d love
to tell the world; things I know and know not of, things I believe in and
things I doubt absolutely, things I fear and things I confront courageously,
things I succeeded at and the others that dubbed me a failure. These lessons
are like a turbulent tide in my mind, seeking an outlet . . . seeking release.
This is to the children; youth;
girls struggling with crushes, low self esteem, annoying mothers, overbearing
fathers, ambition, rules and pain; people whose today are my yesterdays.
This is for girls struggling with
things mama doesn’t understand. For girls whose pastors say to their mamas “Hey,
your girl isn’t normal. You should get her to the deliverance sessions”, when
all they are, is different.
This is for girls growing up
alone even though everyone around her could lend a helping hand. This is for
the girl putting up the façade of a tough exterior when the inside reeks of
decaying flesh.
This is for the girls wishing
they had what others had even though others didn’t have what they had; for
little women straining to make snowballs from the mist.
This is for girls whose backs are
broken from the weight of obligation; girls charred from the heat of juggling
dreams that are not theirs.
This is for girls constantly
looking in mirrors that only tell them that they just aren’t enough. This is
for that lass who cannot admit that she loves a part of herself just because
all eyes stare at that part with disdain.
This is for the girl who knows
but is knocked down every time she dares believe that she’s more than breasts,
buttocks and kitchen utensils. This is for the young women who walk faced down
because their brown bodies cannot take the shape of an hour glass.
This is for girls whose realities
are based on myth and mirages. This is for girls whose tear glands are strained
from over-secretion.
Listen!
This is a new year. This is the
dawn of a new era. This is a new life. This is time for a new “you”. At the
beginning of Joshua’s ministry, God said to him, “Moses is dead, arise…” You
are now at that point where God is saying to you “The old you is dead so
arise.” This is the point where nothing else matters except what God has to say
about you, unto you and through you. This is the time when you become who God
has destined you to be and has programmed you to manifest.
Do I sound too spiritual? Well,
this is time to be spirit-minded if the physical and all other realms in which
you operate in will receive life. Many times, we try to write things like this
with our wits and savvy but I’m convinced that what I have to tell you cannot
be compared, by any standard, to what God has to say to you concerning the same
situation.
If who your peers, your parents,
that man and even you say you are doesn’t mirror what God has already said about
you, you shouldn’t be listening to them. You must learn to rise above rumors,
random opinions and heresy when you are concerned. You must define to yourself
who you really are and must refute anything contrary to that.
You are better than your
deficiency; that bad skin, bad relationship, guilt or even habit. You are
brighter than the depression that eats deep into you or even the failures you
have to show for your endeavors. You are exceedingly mightier than lack and the
pain that tears through your heart each time you think about your problems. You
are simply greater than who you have been no matter the reasons that justify the
state of your past. You have the life of Christ in you and are created in the
image and likeness of God. This means that all you have been subject to, are
now to be subject to your own authority.
You are beautiful You are special You are loved You
are wonderful
You are not abnormal You are extraordinary You are talented
You are wanted You are strong You are courageous You
are visionary
You are bold You are healthy You are wealthy You
are excellent
You are appreciated You are God’s beloved
