A WOMAN

You are beautiful. You are smart.

You are funny. You are kind.

You are unique. You are worthy of love and affection.

You are never too much, and you are always enough.

You are precious. You are a diamond, a rose, a pearl,

the most stunning of all God’s creation. You are worth more than you could ever imagine

worth more than the numbers on the scale or the hair product you use

or the shoes you wear more than how many girls wish they were you

or how many guys wish they had you more than the price tags on your clothes

or the percentage at the top of your math test

or even the number of followers you have on Twitter.

Your worth surpasses all earthly things, because in the eyes of the Lord God, you are loved. And you are worth dying for.

Regardless of who you think you are whether you model in a magazine

or you model pottery with Grandma whether you’re on the “hot list”

or the “not list” whether you’re head cheerleader

or a high school dropout whether you’re Miss Popular

or you’ve never had anyone you could call a friend

whether you love yourself and love your life or you can’t stand to look in the mirror

and you feel as if everything in your life is falling apart

whether you’re such a winner or you feel like the world’s biggest failure. Regardless of who you think you are,

The reality is is that you deserve someone who would give up their life for you

because you are powerful and strong

and capable. Read about the women in the Bible!

Esther, Ruth, Martha, Mary, these women changed the world forever.

And inside of you, each and every one of you is a woman with that same power,

and that same strength, and that same world-changing capability.

And your responsibility is to find that woman and to set that woman free.

This is who you are. And any voices in your mind that try and tell

you differently are from the Enemy,

and the next time you hear them, this is what you say.

You say, “Nuh uh. Not me, Satan! I am a daughter of the living God,

cherished, loved, and adored above all things by the Creator of all things

for the glory of Him who is greater than all things.I am awesome.” And please. Don’t you forget it.the other day a young lady brown as the

melanin and my daughter's eyes said behind the mic that she hated being a

woman she wanted to know what it meant to be one I've often wondered the same looked around for the teaching of such to tell me of myself we all learn to be by imitation or indoctrination mama and media can't help but train too to us and to carbon copies of themselves so then knowing who we are or what we should be is really understanding whose costumes we wear on most days whose skeletons we switched with when Adam took his nap I

was told a woman was independent autonomous that she needed not a man or moon to keep her in orbit that she moved about as wind and breeze lived without needing permission to interrupt all that is still and under restraint I was told a woman could not truly be herself that is if her self is not light enough dark enough of her hair as no Rapunzel replica or if it be two underground railroad for those cotton active men to stomach I was told that my body it's neither belonging of me nor its beauty innate but that I am NOT gorgeous unless told by another woman's son to be

so when did the mouths of men in whose image women are not made and begin to damage us so silently maybe it was when we began believing the voices that have no deity in it I was told a woman should not submit should not be meek that that type of behavior was only for women who treated their voice like a secret I was told not to be a secret but a siren to be as Moschetti as I can and honor my opinions at the expense of respect while

some men may believe themselves to have liberty over a woman's body as taught how to destroy is only the private he could predict we have equally learned how to tear and rip and undo dignity with a mere sentence or squint it's called strong by society they told us that's what a backbone looks like but beautiful is the spine that remembers word came from the Lexus knowing of self not be determined by every wind of doctrine and dust but God himself we must alert the deep misunderstandings that composed

themselves as empowerment as freedom liberation has never come by way of unbelief Eve another taillight by finding beauty in lies but only a naked

body and her husband that forgot her first name we women must be smarter must be wiser must be bent on loving truth no matter how contradicting it is to a dying culture I tell you a woman is no fool unless she chooses to be if you ask me what is a woman I would tell you that she has a bone made alive her distinctions that set her apart as does the difference between a firefly and a new poem a woman is not a man her calling is not a synonym of inferiority her distinctions are not the child of patriarchy they come from a creative God did you see his fingerprints in your hips the Whistling shadow of his mind when your body became home to another

name that called you mommy where all the gladness you forgot could exist a woman submits to her God her husband her church she is no weak willed or brittle backed woman but only as strong as humility and faith may identify her to be they say submission sounds like servant they say that sounds like something to rebelled against I say and it's funny how being a servant is repulsive to everyone but God and we wonder why we can't recognize his face if you actually if you ask me what is a woman I would tell you that she is a sister to all even those whose blood is not of the same roots but who was still as kin as her mama's first born and she treats these sisters like a wintered quilt making sure her mouth does not unstitched that which was made to keep cold hearts warm we are made up of nurture and everything comfortable and that is why we feel so deep why we cry so sudden because the emotions that make us woman don't make us unstable but earnest refuse to the chaos where our ribs one set we necessary and nuanced at best but a woman should be nothing more or less than what God made her to be if you ask me what is a woman I would tell you that's the God who made her as perfect as she is make her one of akind among men and all the creation in universe.