“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all.”

“So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach.”

-Dr. Maya Angelou

It’s always great to have role models to look up to for inspiration. Here are some women that really inspire me in my walk with Christ:

Author, speaker and television personality Michelle McKinney Hammond
Her books give great advice about being a divine Diva and committing every area of your life to God. I love her!

Singer Yolanda Adams! Her music touches my mind and soul. My favorite song is of course “Never Give Up”. Love it!

I’ll be posting more Inspirational Women soon. Have a blessed day!

I’ve created this blog for young people who aren’t afraid to stand up for God. You can serve God and be fabulous at the same time! Here I’ll talk about issues we face, news in the gospel community and my experiences as a servant to His Kingdom and as a Dreamer of Victory and Excellence (DOVE).