And sometimes the Resilient Nature of Joy

Reminds us that we can truly stand alone

On our own

Withwatchful gaze quiet in Inner Listening of our Truth

Back boned and steady on top of Faith’s sturdy roof

That alone is sometimes where the ALL/ONE needs to position

Our beating hearts into stillness so we can better listen

And truly hear our innate Voice

We are always free to make a choice

Joy calls us in beckoned tones

To follow the Path of the Unknown

To look out beyond human fear

Fall or Fly - trust the movement of the air

For Joy assures you that you are able to withstand

The flight for both will find you upheld in God’s Protective Hand.

- Nikki Williams

“Maybe ,,, just maybe

We are given the shade of gray

Above and below

So that we will remember, so that we can know

Just how bright, beautiful, and bold we are;

And maybe … just maybe

That gray is put there to do us the tremendous favor of saying,

‘You better get out there and be vibrantly and brilliantly bodacious!’

Ha! God is something else! God just keeps talking to us in so many ways!

Show your Red

Hear what I said?!

Thank you, Gray! I hear you!”

(Joy told me I better not forget my manners!)

- Nikki Williams

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Yes, Yes, Yes!

Lordy, Yes!

Now that’s Joy!

Joy is saying, “I don’t care how bold and bright the rest of y’all think you are

But I’ma show my little skinnier legs up in the air just like the rest of y’all!

And I may not have a full sproutin’ Afro Leafed Mane of Hair up on my head

But I’m show what I got proudly and it can sway up here to if the wind gets a notion to sway it!

Y’all ain’t God! Y’all ain’t the ones to say what is beautiful and what ain’t!

And just for y’all tryin’ to be so doggone cute, I’ma stand right here on top of y’all heads!

Limbs stretched out pulled Heaven bound, dancin’ the ‘Funky Chicken’ with my little ole thin limbs - I don’t give a fig!

And I ain’t gonna be payin’ y’all no never mind!

And that’s what Joy tole me to tell y’all - though I was thinkin’ the ‘xact same thang any ole way! But Joy do got a way of amplifyin’ thangs …

‘Go Skinny Leaves, Go Skinny Leaves,

Go Skinny Leaves!”

- Nikki Williams

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Courage is not standing boldly without fear

Courage is standing bravely present in the face of fear

it is allowing the shape of shadows to silhouette your trembling body

And trusting that your Light is enough to give notice to the darkness

Courage is about constantly

defiantly

defining Who you are