My tagline, mission, slogan, and brand of sorts is Embrace Your
Greatness. I use it in hashtags on twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It’s my
message to people everywhere but especially the lost, wounded, hurt,
heartbroken, and in particularly young women. It is expressed on the back cover
of my book Words of Inspiration, Sister to Sister: So Then I Learned. And while
you can probably find those words anywhere. Just do a quick google search and
it will come up in many places. And, you probably think you know what I mean with
those words, I want to clarify my thought process behind my positive affirmation
for you to Embrace Your Greatness.
You see before I started using it I had no idea it was such
a used phrase. My usage of the phrase comes from two thought processes. One, as
a professor, having taught many students I see too often how low self-worth and
low confidence stunts the growth of our young people. Somewhere in their
background, typically, their childhood they were told, you can’t, you are not
capable, you are not the right color, or the right size or the right…and the
list goes on and on. They are hardly ever told that they are good enough just as
they are. This low self-worth manifest in their grades and behavior. They act
out because they are seeking attention. They do poorly in school because they
feel like what’s the use anyway and so the cycle of impoverished thinking
continues.
As I began to see through these external actions to feel the
internal self-loathing, I challenged myself to make a difference. I challenged
myself to be a positive influence in their lives. I started looking with my
heart and not my eyes. I challenged myself
to look beyond statistics and stereotypes. I challenged myself to look beyond dreaded
hair, gold top and bottom grills, pants hanging below the butt, Goth makeup, half
naked bodies with beautiful young ladies baring their precious vessels so
everyone can see, the profaned filthy expressions that comes from not knowing
any other way to express themselves. I challenged myself to look beyond all of
that and see the soul that God created. And behind the external armor of low self-worth
is a beautiful soul that caused God to smile and say “it is good.”
Looking through his eyes of love and compassion for the
human soul there is greatness in every soul that breathes. There is ability and
capability. There is creativity and creative powers. There is powerful and prolific
thought processes that can result in brilliant writers, authors, doctors, surgeons,
pianist, musicians, athletes, activist, actors, humanitarians, entrepreneurs
and so much more if someone took the time to look beyond the external and see
the greatness that abides inside of us all.
Secondly, when we embrace our greatness we can clearly see
greatness in others. For those of us that believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord,
the scriptures says Greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world (1John
4:4). In this battle between good and evil. Greater came to overcome evil. And
he showed himself mighty as he died a horrible death on the cross and rose
again on the third day claiming victory over death and the grave. That Greater
power left this physical world but not without leaving a gift behind. He
promised to give his spirit to anyone that would accept it. If you are a
believer then you have accepted the gift of his spirit and so in you and I
resides the same power that he had. He is limitless and so are we. So when I
say embrace your greatness to believers. I am asking you to embrace the Holy
Spirit that lives inside of you. Know that there’s nothing you can’t
accomplish. Know that all things are possible for you. Know that you have the greatest
power that ever existed living inside of you. When this power is acknowledged there
is nothing that can stop you from being the best you that you can possibly be.
You and I will reach our destiny as long as we embrace our greatness!!
Allowing the gift of the Holy Spirit to reign in our lives through
the reading of his letters to us (the bible) you will begin to see others through
his loving eyes and heart of compassion. When we all look with those eyes and
hearts we understand we are all united in one mission, to love each other as He
loves each of us. This brings about a clarity that allows us to see clearly the
greatness that’s in us all.
I love you with Christ love,
Embrace your greatness and inspire someone today.
