Get Up From The Table

If I've learned anything over the course of my life it can be summed up in this sentence: get up from the table if you don't like what's being served.

Ladies, this is especially for you.

You don't have to eat what's being served to you.

Negative comments, lies, labels, opinions, criticisms, and thoughts are all extremely unhealthy for your diet, including the ones you speak to yourself.

You are not a doormat. You are not a rug. You don't deserve to be walked on or walked over.

You are worthy, right now. As you are.

Stop discounting yourself. You’re not a clearance item.

Stop slashing your price. Get out of the discount bin. You have full value. You belong with the diamonds. Start acting like it.

Stop depending on a partner to fulfill the needs that only God can. Stop relying on people to complete you.

People can’t complete you. You’re already whole.

Own your power. Own your independence. Own your confidence.

Walk with your head high, shoulders back, chin up. You already have all the love you are seeking.

Choose to see it. Choose to believe it.

To whoever is reading this, I pray that you are able to find all of the happiness and joy that you seek from others, from above. I pray that you look inside of your magical, starry heart, and realize that the joy of the Lord is your strength. (Nehemiah 8:10)

I pray that this strength floods every ounce of your soul with a love so deep and pure, that you never pine or beg for someone else again. I pray that you accept and receive that honest, raw, unconditional love and know that it doesn't come with false promises, lies, and shallow actions.

This love, this joy doesn't come with people who always take you for granted and never treat you with the respect you deserve. It doesn't come with people who don't know you and your heart. It doesn't come with hurt, insults, pain, and abuse.

I pray that you are able to find that strength to leave the table. I pray that you are able to protect yourself from those people who never valued you, who never appreciated your gentleness, kindness, and soft, warm soul. I pray that you follow the light. The light that is so bright that it can't be extinguished. I pray that you fill yourself up with the love that God has for you.

When Jesus was crucified on the cross, He found you worthy. He found you valuable. He never discounted you, and isn't about to start now. His Word tells us that never will He leave you, never will He forsake you. (Isaiah 41:10)

Start seeing yourself through the eyes of true love. Start letting people know that you are a child of a King. You are a child of God, and you deserve to be treated as such. Start normalizing standing up for yourself and for your beliefs, stand up for who you are. Empower yourself to be who you want to be and love that person. Chasing people, chasing acceptance, shrinking your unique self down to fit what somebody, or what society says you "should" be is energy and time poorly wasted. Stand in your power.

You will never fit into cages when you were born to fly.