At a very early age, I remember my mother and her friend sitting in our small apartment and talking
about all of what they would do to get their children out of the neighborhood, which we lived in,
so of course you can imagine what type of neighborhood it was.
Me being who I am, stayed in my room, which i shared with one of my four brothers and listened
intently at these ladies sharing their concern for their young and the more they talked, the
greater my concern was for my mother, out of all of these ladies, we had the largest family,
which caused my young mind, to believe her worries were greater then the others.
Finally after what seem like eternity, the ladies left and I slowly came out of my room
and watched the after effect of her emotions from the previous conversation, which she
tried to mask and wasn't good at, or maybe I was just that worried to the point of disillusion.
She looked at my concerned face, and grasp my face with her hands gently and asked..
"boy whats on your mind?" and with a tears forming in my eyes, i said mom everything
going to be alright, one day, I'm going to make a lot of money and get us out of here and
she smiled, saying son, "that is my job", "but if you do it first, that will be fine",
"but in the mean time", "concentrate on this and she took my hand and
lead me into the kicthen", to begin preparing dinner.
She handed me a piece of paper with writing on it and the heading was Lift her up high.
So here is the writting of a woman who head stayed high regardless to what situation she was in.
For the beauty of He set me free of the misery that my eyes see, which allows me the
ability to be lifted up high and put on my grace filled with peace and tranquility.
I think to my self, God allowed me to have seven children, each whom love me tenderly and each who
love me completely and unconditonally, which allows me to lift my self up high and and
have a greater reason to cry then what goes on around me.
I pray for the day that I can take my babies away, and allow patience to be my friend, while
I take action upon my dream and together with Him, they will get a chance to see greater
things, but until that time, I will not allow my eyes to cry about what going on out side of me, for
He got the beauty of what my heart can see, which allows me to keep my eyes dry, so i can
see where I'm going, when He lead me to a place better then what surrounds me.
I have friends who need my shoulder as I may need theirs, and together we have love that
allows us to lift our selves up high, so why should I concentrate on things
that I will soon leave behind as say be able to say bye-bye.
Then I think to myself, why am I always on why, for He should be lifted up high, For he supplied me a
place to lay my head, food to feed my young, a another day to give my love to someone
who may not love them selves and might want just a little hug.
I am a woman, who is being used by the most high, so that allows me the gift of feeling high inside and
what ever goes on outside, is His concern, so I'll take pride and share the love He allowed me to
have inside for those who are outside, so maybe the outside can be like the inside, where peace
and tranquilty can go side by side, and i may not have to worry about what happen to my children
out side, because of the love he allowed me to have on the inside, can over flow to the out side
All woman are gifts, that should be lifted up high, because someone who is higher created us for
greatness and regardless to what goes on around us, we still have the gift to be lifted above
what our eyes see and share love in ways that are nurturing to all.
Amen!