Keep Your Head Held High

No matter what I've been through in my lifetime, I have always kept my head held high. I always knew who I was and what my worth was. It wasn't until I gave away my power that I lost the sense of who I was. When I no longer felt my worth, it was then I walked with my head down, feeling defeated and worthless. 

You might be at that point in your life right now. You might be in a relationship that you know is over. You know that relationship has killed your spirit and your self-esteem, yet you're holding on. You're hoping for change and hoping to find your lost self.

I am here to tell you that you will never find it until you step out and change things. You need to get past the fear. I remember hearing Bishop Bloomer talking about your worth. He asked, “Are you only worthy when he calls you at 2 am, and not even to take you out to McDonald's?”

He went on to ask “How do you carry yourself? Are you waiting around year after year with the promise of a commitment, yet it has never come to pass?”

“What does your package say about you? Are you showing the world all your goods? Or does it say I am a lady and deserve to be treated like one?” 

My question to you is: Are you going to stand by and let that man walk all over you? He's lying and cheating behind your back while you turn a blind eye to it yet again, or will you stand up and say, you have more value than that and will not be treated like that.

Has he taken away your self-esteem? Made you believe you are worthless, that you're not beautiful, and that without him, you'd be no one or nothing?

I get it. You may start to think, no one else will want me. I am too old to start over. I am broken and damaged and not good enough, or not pretty enough, not skinny enough, so this is what I deserve.

I am here to tell you you are all that you speak! Don't speak so little of yourself. Wake up and tell yourself that you are beautiful. Say you are worthy, and you are smart. Go out and find some female friends who will tell you that, because if your friends are not lifting you up, then they are the wrong friends, just like he is the wrong man.

Do you not realize you are the child of the highest God, and every day you should know your worth and stand up with your head held high. It doesn't matter what you have been through or the things that you let people do to you. It doesn't matter how long you've stayed in that horrible marriage or that someone got over on you. None of those matters. It only matters that you are willing to change, to walk away with your head held high and say what hasn't killed me has made me stronger.

So today, my friends, start speaking it over yourself: Say I believe in myself and my self-worth. I want to be an example to my children and to other women. Know that, yes, it is possible to change and walk away with a testimony, to be able to tell others your story.

You need to know that all the pain you have been through wasn't all for nothing. It was so you may inspire others to know that you can get through anything with God's or the universe or whatever you believe in help. That you can find peace and joy, that you can and will find your self-worth and once again walk with your head held high, knowing that you are all that he made you to be.

Now stand up straight. Shoulders back, head held high, and show the world what you are made of!

“Be the change you want to see”