RISING ABOVE THE ADVERSITY

When life takes its toll I try to find ways to encourage myself and lift my spirits. That's what these Motivational Monday Moments are all about, lifting and encouraging your spirit and hoping that your week will be blessed.

Today as I think over the challenges and obstacles that I have overcome, and a book that I am working on, I can't help but think of Ms. Angelou's famous poem...Still I Rise. Today, I share this poem as a tribute to the challenges I have overcome from childhood to now. I share this poem as a tribute to you and the strength and the courage and the passion on the inside of you. Do not be bitter! Do not be broken! Be the beautiful, talented, you that He created you to be.

Still I Rise - Maya Angelou    
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

LIVE VICTORIOUS!


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WRITING MY DREAMS,

CHELLE RAMSEY