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Oprah Winfrey
One of my gifts that I've, had since I was a little girl growing up in Mississippi being raised on a tiny little acre farm with my grandmother. I knew how to pay attention. I was a
great observer of life and I grew up believing that I was indeed for sure.
God's, child it's because every Sunday I sat in our little church down the road a dirt road from where my grandmother lived. No running water, no electricity, no vision of hope or possibility, and I would listen to the preacher preach about the LORD thy.
God is a loving God and sometimes he would say the LORD thy. God is a jealous God, but most important. I heard him say you: are: God's, child and, through God, all things are possible. So my vision, my perception, my understanding of what it means to be a universal citizen has grown.
As I came to understand, acts 17:28. My favorited bible, verse that says in God I move and breathe and have my being having that belief system that something greater than me was in charge of my destiny of my faith that it wasn't just me alone.
Having to survive for myself. Is the rock that has sustained me when you look at where I've, come from a little town, apartheid town in Kosciusko, Mississippi in 1954, where there was a no vision or hope for you? My grandmother's, greatest desire for me, as she had been a maid and her mother before her had been a maid.
Her greatest desire was that I would grow up one day and be able to do the same hell. No hell. No, my ability to step into literally the flow and grace that I call God is what has gotten me here and I consistently mind that, because having a spiritual life, isn't, something that you can attain because you already are a spiritual life.
There is no one else in creation like you, there's, nobody like you and what you've come to do and what you have to offer is like no other. No one brings the level of uniqueness and authenticity that you can bring.
Nobody. Does it like you, an understanding that what you have to offer? What you've come to give to the planet. Is your gift? You're, offering in a way that nobody else can and how much that matters it matters to you.
It matters to the people that you love and it matters to our planet that you are here. It's, a miracle that we get to be here and when I think of my life and the fact that nobody really kind of wanted me in the beginning, my father had sex with my mother one time.
Can you imagine as a powerful seed? He wasn't in love with her. He said she was wearing a poodle skirt and he wanted to know what was up under there and she showed him by an oak tree and to think that something as random as my mother's, poodle skirt.
To think that something is random. As that would create a little Negro child in Mississippi, who grew up and had and has had and continues to have, the opportunities that I've had that is. I can assure that is nothing but grace its grace.