Hey Black Child. Hey ALL children.

Hey Black Child
By: #MayaAngelou

Hey Black Child
Do you know who you are
Who you really are
Do you know you can be
What you want to be
If you try to be
What you can be

Hey Black Child
Do you know where you are going
Where you're really going
Do you know you can learn
What you want to learn
If you try to learn
What you can learn

Hey Black Child
Do you know you are strong
I mean really strong
Do you know you can do
What you want to do
If you try to do
What you can do

Hey Black Child
Be what you can be
Learn what you must learn
Do what you can do
And tomorrow your nation
Will be what you what it to be

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Just encouragement. If we don't consistently remind our children of who they are, who's in support of them, what they're capable of & what they can/will accomplish--society doesn't mind redefining life for them. You won't redefine mine.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" -Proverbs 22:6

It's not a perfected walk, but a transparent one. Don't allow people to remind you of your failures, "you remember when .." Nope, cease it. Let your actions and walk remind them of what destiny, change, hope, and the love of Christ looks like.

I'm not dumping my old dreams or my walk of religion on her, she's learning the value of both early for herself.. In a way that it'll stick. When we seek God with our whole hearts, consistently--he is never far. And nothing is impossible.
#MayaAndMommy #MommyAndMeMondays #HeyBlackChild #HeyALLchildren
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