LEAVE THE RAGS AND EMBRCAE THE FINE
LINEN
You
are the most beautifully, sculptured and handmade design to ever walk on earth.
When you were born you were bathed in sanctified oil and wrapped around in only
the finest linen. You were birthed as a princess of a royal priesthood and
pearls were placed all over your body. From your facial features to your well
defined body, you were planned to the “T” and there is no mark of a single
mistake left on your body, for you are fearfully and wonderfully made. You were presented into this world as a work
of art for you are a one of a kind master piece. All this alone defines your
exterior.
Within
you is a warrior. A fighter and a survivor. You were shielded with an immense
amount of strength hence only you alone can carry a seed and let it grow within
you for an entire 9 months. Only you have been blessed with the ability to
carry AND give life. You have been deemed as being emotional by those who don’t
understand the transitions you have to undergo every month when your cycle
comes. You have an ability to still hold it together even when your raging
hormones are tempting you to fall apart.
When you were created you were given all the wisdom, knowledge, tenacity
and will power to survive in this jungle of ups and downs that we call life.
Your hands have a smooth, loving and nurturing touch. You have a powerful
ability to forgive, nurture and give compassion without expecting any rewards
for your kindness. Your insight always gives light to a dark situation. Your
presence is felt whenever you step into a room for you exhort confidence. All
these are an extension of your beauty and personality but what makes you truly beautiful is your ability to be
yourself and the respect and dignity you uphold for yourself simply because you
know your worth.
Knowing
all this about yourself I sometimes wonder why you clothe and wrap yourself in
rags when you were born being wrapped in fine linen? Why have you allowed the
media to be your bible and dictator? Why have you lowered your worth just to
gain attention from the wrong crowd? Why have you become so desperate for love
that you are willing to take anything that comes along all because your image
does not depict the image of the models you see on every magazine cover you
have purchased? Why do you fear expressing your intelligence all because you
have been deceived to believe that seduction and showing your skin are the only
ways to get attention? Why have you made yourself to believe that your body is
as far as your worth could ever be defined? Why do you give those who do not
even know the real you access into possessing the definition of your own worth?
Why have you allowed your insecurities to cloud that voice of wisdom that lies
within you? As you try to answer all these questions you begin to realise how
you have allowed yourself to drown in a pool of confusion, trying to figure out
what led you to this point. It is time to drain out all that filthy water out
of that pool of self destruction you have found yourself in. Clean out all
those negative words that told you that you will never amount to anything. That
the only way to ever make it in life is to marry a rich man. That women were
never shaped to dream big and aspire for greater things and can only reach a
certain level of success. If you ever suffered from such a mentality it is
never too late to walk back into the path that you were always destined for.
When
you were created, you were designed as that hope for a nation. When you are
educated it is in your nature to pass on that knowledge to many others. Your
wisdom alone can transform a hopeless nation into becoming a nation that is
bursting with hope. Your number one role was to be a helper. In no way does it
mean that you have to lose all your aspirations just to serve, but all that it
means is that you alone hold the power to serve others into a greater place.
You can serve orphans to feeling the love of a mother, you can serve a family
to having its strong values, and these are just a few of the many things that
your service brings about. Never feel demeaned by your role to serve because
through service greatness emerges. Your active hand is what gives birth to
greatness.
Never
allow yourself to be validated by societies idea of beauty. A society that has
given a term to lighter women, making darker toned women feel as if they don’t
measure up all because they are not “yellow’. A society that has made Botox and
Liposuction become a norm and has made a size 0 become the new size 2. You are
far above this so rise above these meaningless perceptions instead of
conforming to them. You have allowed yourself to run a race with societies
deceptive views, that to drive you to hate your own kind. Always looking down
on your own kind, measuring your beauty and even the kind of men you date as
being better all in the name of comparison. You need to WAKE UP and realise
that pulling your fellow sister down is what is setting us back in becoming
influential. We always work better and are stronger as a unit. It is time to
put an end to the PHD (pull her down) syndrome and start a Pull Her Up movement
if we ever want to become significant.
Life is far too precious to waste time on
indulging on negativity, all to please people you don’t even know. Define your
own beauty and raise the standard you have set for yourself. This message is
continually preached all because you just don’t seem to get it!!!!!! Let today
be the day you see yourself as more than what the mirror conveys. You need to
start making use of that immense potential that lies within you. You are
something far more meaningful than that Indian hair or flawless make up. Yes
they enhance your beauty but they can never define you WOMAN!
I wrote this article for all you
beautiful sisters as it really saddens me to see how we have let ourselves go.
Dignity and worth are slowly dying out. We are too focused on validating
ourselves with meaningless things that we are failing to nourish our characters
as women. Let us be the change we want to see in our daughters. There is still
hope for our generation but it all begins with you. Another thing let’s stop
hating on each other; it is so bad that even men can see how women never
support each other. God shaped us to work better as a unit so let’s start
supporting each other. I leave you with this one message” learn to know her story before you judge her actions, for you are
your sisters’ keeper”
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