I have struggled to find words over the last few weeks. My new year started off with a graceful reminder... PAIN AND CHALLENGE is PREPARATION FOR BLESSINGS!!!
In this time of my life some situations and experiences are disappointing (to say the least) and others are overwhelming gifts of God's love and grace in my life. These situations and experiences co-exist in my reality, and I sometimes struggle to understand why, and other times am able to remind myself... "it is what it is" and "be blessed, right now". I am moving thru a valley of a personal spiritual transformation... I know it sounds very Oprah/New Age-y, but it is truth! In this space, I struggle to find the words and I realized that I can celebrate the silence also. God is truly preparing me for GREATNESS and with his grace and mercy.... I am becoming more enlightened to my purpose and the gifts I bring to this moment to share with the world.
The Day WE made History!!!
On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 President Barack Hussien Obama was sworn in as the first African American President of the United States of America. I watched history being made with my Mother, My BabyBoy, My OthaMotha, and so many other elders of my community at My Mom's Church. When we first arrived, the planners of this event asked me to say a few words about what this moment mean to me as a kick off to the viewing. I was the first guest to speak, and when I looked out and say my son watching me, and my mother smiling proudly, I took the microphone and spoke from my spirit.
I shared how glad I was to share this moment with my Mother, My Son, and My Other Mother. I had been torn about going to DC or staying home, and at that moment I was so glad I decided to stay home. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else but there. I also shared about how I use to ponder historic moments in our past (The Middle Passage, Hundreds of Years of Enslavement, The Civil War, Post-Emancipation, Jim Crow Days, Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement....). As I learned about these times in history I often wondered who I would have been in that movement at that moment... what would I have done, where would I have been, how would I have participated in that moment in history. I said that this moment on this day, my curiosity about the past has settled ... because I was born to be in this moment, in this movement, at this time... this is my purpose and I am so thankful to do my part. As I said that silence came over me. That is truly what this moment means to me... IT IS MY WAKE UP CALL TO MY PURPOSE!! I am inspired by President Barack Obama's audacity to believe that this was the time and the right moment for him to run for Presidency... and I am most inspired by my fellow Americans that we had the AUDACITY to join this movement of our lifetime!
After other speakers finished... we settled down to watch history. I was listening somewhat, but the moment was so spirit-filling that I had to just feel it (Later, I had to go back and watch President Obama's speech so I could really listen to it). After the Inauguration, we shared lunch with everyone. There was a woman whose Birthday was celebrated during this luncheon and she turned 88 year old woman. I sat with an elder from Alabama and I could feel her spirit as we watched the Inauguration, and during the lunch as she would touch my hand and rub my shoulder she said, This is a Blessing", and I never thought I would see this". I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN AT THIS TIME IN THIS MOMENT!!
My wake up call has opened up my heart, mind, and spirit...
- This week a dream I have had for many years was re-energized after a great conversation with a sista I met. I am writing again!!!
- I am more Swaggerful today than I was yesterday!
- I am coming out of my funk, and overjoyed with the possibilities...
- I am saying yes to the possibilities, and no to the fear that often holds me back
Somethings I understand about spirtuality and are eloquently said by others (this is from Oprah.com)...
Elizabeth says spirituality is ingrained in all of us. "There's this instinct inside of each and every one of us that there's more to life than meets the eye," she says. Elizabeth says spirituality is our intuition that there is something greater to life than the daily grind. "It's the fearlessness to ask the big questions," she says. "Who am I? What's my purpose? Life? Where do we go when we die? And how do we live a fully alive, meaningful, giving, generous life when we're here?"
Oprah's definition of spirituality revolves around the understanding that we are more than what we can physically see. "When you begin to realize that you are more than your body, that your purpose is greater than your profession or your career—that every life, because you were born you have a right to be here and there is a calling on your life—it means you live your life without fear and you know that no matter what happens, no matter what happens, you are going to be all right. You are going to be all right. That's what spirituality is for me."
Loved and Loving,
WonderWoman
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