Forward March!

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Black Women, I encourage you all to keep moving forward in acquiring holy knowledge. It is important and useful, learn it, feel it, know it beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are loved by the Creator, you have a purpose in this world, and all your faculties must be used towards achieving, creating, surmounting, building, and passing on to the next generation!

And now for a story (this is a repeat story):

There was once a black woman who always went down a certain street. Every day she made her trek down that street.  One day a mugger decided to crouch behind a bush and ambush her. He had plans to rob, rape, and do all sorts of horrible things to her.


Well it so happened that on that particular day, the young black woman had decided to wear her teachers garments. She put on her teachers shoes, the hat, the suit, the skirt. She looked like a totally different person. So, when she went down that same street, the mugger did not recognize her and did not harm her. She passed safely!

and now for the same story, but on a different plane:

There was once a young black woman who always went down a certain thought process. Everyday she made her way down that path.  One day some haters, nay sayers, and doubts decided to crouch behind a lie and and ambush her. They had plans to rob, rape, and do all sorts of horrible things to her.


Well it so happened that on that particular day, the young black woman had finally internalized what her teachers had been trying to teach her. She grew to a new level of knowledge, belief, understanding.A new wisdom.  Its as if she had new clothes on and was unrecognizable from what she used to be.  She began to think like a totally different person.  Truly, she WAS a different person.  So when she went down that same thought pattern, the pitfall that was there did not effect her at all. The old way of hurting her was no longer effective; she had moved on to a new plane of reality.

When we gain new knowledge, the old way of hurting us (be it the latest MSM's negative "studies" that always seem to end with bad news for BW, or the cruel statements made by comedians, etc) simply do not work anymore.  This is a good reason to keep learning, keep growing. But there is a catch.

If someone does not grow. Every day you see them with a number 1 in their hands. One day, just bring on a negative 1 (-1) and you've cancelled what they had.

Now if someone grows in a crawling sort of way. One day she has a 1. The next day she has a 2. And then a 3. and so on and so forth.  She's doing better than the girl carrying the 1 everyday. But a quick algebraic equation can cancel her too. (i.e. it may take more work to bring her down, but its not sooo impossible).

Okay, but if she progresses constantly. One day she has a 1. The next day a 5. The day after a 7. After that a 14, and so on and so forth, it would be extremely difficult to bring her down. Its almost not worth the work!

All this to say: progress with yourself. Push yourself as far as you can go with knowledge and understanding. Know --I mean don't just believe, but know- the boundlessness of G-d's love for you. Even though you may never reach the borders of His love for you, but the simple exercise of trying to imagine its borders and realizing its borderlessness will raise you up so high!!!

Much Blessings!!

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