Day 1 - 40 Day Women’s Prayer and Empowerment Challenge

I AM MY SISTERS KEEPER

As I reflect upon the abuse, neglect, rejections, and exploitation of women for thousands of years, my soul cries out for my ancestors as well as for my predecessors; for, there seems to be little hope for the future based on the stories today.  I can only imagine that my slave mothers and sisters had hearts open to love, before their men were snatched from their homes and coupled with other women to keep the slave industry alive and well.  I pity my sister slave owner whose husband betrayed her with the woman of color she entrusted with her possessions and offspring.  My heart bleeds for today’s woman who’s lost her husband or children’s father to the modern day slavery systems called prison, addiction, pornography and infidelity.  I feel the aches in my belly for my sisters who trusted a father, uncle, or family friend as a caregiver only to have something to go so wrong.  I soak my pillows for my sister who lost their innocence in an untimely manner.  I scream for the strong sister with a voice and opinion but is ridiculed, beaten, ostracized, and even murdered because of it.

I know without a doubt that they once had an open heart to freely LOVE and now it is hardened as means of protection, uncompromising against men and untrusting towards women. Oh, how I feel the pain of my sisters.  WE so desperately need LOVE again! Right now, we are only surviving.  We are unknowingly holding our breath, carrying the cares of the world in the tension knots in our bodies.  We’ve got the bottled up tears that we refuse to cry that are manifesting themselves in every manner of cancer and disease in our organs.  We need a refuge, a place to be safe with our hearts, our secrets, our shame, our guilt, and our confessions.  We need each other!  We need sisterhood!  We need LOVE!  We need hope! We need to exhale!

Let’s breathe and bow our heads and pray this day, that we can eliminate impatience, envy, arrogance, rudeness, self-seeking, provoking spirit, and continual thoughts of evil and fill our heart and souls with kindness, patience, a celebration of truth, longsuffering, and endurance of love which are highlighted in I Corinthians 13: 1-8.  Let’s us Love in spite of what has happened and exemplify unfailing, forever, true LOVE for our God, ourselves, our families, and our sisters!

Let this be your safe place!  #IAmMySistersKeeper