the will to live-day 22
The #WillToLive 30 days through self discovery with Me! I will do everything I need to do for myself. I will allow the will of God to lead me in my communications. I will unlock my #WillToLive.
If the lemons life gives you are extra tart you must simply learn how to be sweeter.
-Dizzie Harris
Day 22
It's day 22 party people and I'm feeling alive! It got me thinking about the price of being a leader. I want to share this spoken-word I wrote from my soon to be published book Journey My Ebony. I hope that this message reassures you that you are not in this alone.
A Spoken Word:
Price of being a leader
What's crazy is I always found myself in competition with people
Who we're just trying to fit in
When God made me differently wrapped up in divinity
Set on this earth with a purpose
I'm not even meant to stand with them
I found myself trying to make the comparisons
On who was better or
Who got the most play
But then I finally realized that
It's not about how much play you get
It's about how you play
And it's not about how fast you can spit your lines
It's about the significance behind the words that you say
See I'm not saying that I don't fraternize with those
Who's missions are different from mine
I've just simply reiterated the boundaries on
Which our friendships lie
Most of which are by the words that I speak
By the way I carry myself
And by the messages I preach
Those who walk in my same destined path
Those are the ones who, when I speak truthful words
The meaning behind it, they'll grasp
Those are the ones that are trying to be a part of something
Bigger than he/ she and I
AND those are the ones who's discerning spirits
Won't allow them to follow behind a prophetic lie
Those are the ones that ain't worried bout they come up
Because they're trying to make His kingdom bigger
I am a natural born leader
Who's realized they were meant to lead when
No matter how hard I tried to camouflage myself into the crowed
I could never quite fit in
No matter how many times I changed my hair
Or swagger up my style
I was always the sore sight in the devils eye
Who just always stood out
So he beat me up
Tried to initiate me into his gang
And I would've been apart of it
If it wasn't for Gods favor and his Grace see
By His Grace
I'm still standing tall
And through my storms and my pain
He's kept me through it all
And there were time I had strayed
But his love, it did remain
Oh he kept me
By His grace
Oh lord you kept me
By your grace
It's not an easy battle to fight
I had to fight it with all my might
And in the industry that I'm in
He uses many cliché tactics to come for my life!
But that's the price of being a chosen one
God never gives us more than we can bare
The occasional reminder of his favor
To let us know he's always there
The ever so often hurdle he gives us to jump over
And though it'll will never seem fair
Don't try to ever make sense of it
You never will
Jesus was a leader, never complained
He endured much more than I could ever imagine enduring
And gave his life to bare
The price of being a leader
Asé
Love,
Yourself