the many faces OF STRENGTH as told by marquita moore
11:05 AM: “Strength has many faces,” I told my son last night. I’m mindful of how I speak to him about being strong, I’m careful to explain to him the varied ways strength can look and the many opportunities that present themselves for strength to be exercised. Sometimes being strong requires us to soften our grip. It takes strength to practice humility. The road to humbleness can be rough.
Compassion and forgiveness can take a lot of strength, too. It’s easier, though, when no judgment surrounds who deserves it and who doesn’t; we all deserve it. It takes strength to admit when we are wrong yet stand inside of a mistake or bad decision with our heads high. It takes strength to want to look at our wounds … and heal them. It takes strength to love when everything in us is urging us to turn our backs. It takes strength to let go and be in God’s flow.
It takes strength to serve and require or ask for nothing in return.
It takes strength to trust and live life by the ways of the Spirit and not the world.
There is strength in being gentle.
It takes strength to stand up and fight the invisible war constantly raging, which tries to rob us of peace and
It takes strength to love when everything in us is screaming not to love but to put up a wall of defense that keeps the challenges that will bring us to deeper love, out. It takes strength to love, even when loving requires us to walk away. Mindblowing Magazine | 54
happiness — our rightful position in God’s light.
It takes strength to allow others, those whom we trust and are walking in God’s truth, to sharpen us. Sharpening can come in the form of hard, real conversations, ones that challenge our perspectives or provide us with loving,
