On this women’s day, I simply want to encourage you fellow women, with this powerful poem, Return to Love by Marianne Williamson Harper Collins.

These words were a great source of encouragement for Nelson Mandela, and may encourage you or another lady in your life, working through any obstacle.   We have ways to go to achieve equality and equity, and it requires A LOT of patience and sacrifice, especially those of us who strive to stand up for ourselves and others, without good leadership to support and encourage you.

May you find solace in these beautiful words.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other

people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

 

Return to Love  by Marianne Williamson, Harper Collins, 1992.