You Have a Huge Heart
A long time ago now,
when my son was so much younger
someone asked him why I was so fat.
His answer has stuck with me all these years.
She’s not fat,
he said,
God gave her a huge heart
and then gave her a body that could hold it.
I have faced my share of criticism
in my life.
I have been too much
or too little of so many things.
I have heard hateful words
and experienced hateful things,
like when someone bashed the back of my knees,
or when I was raped,
or when I was verbally abused because
I provoked it,
or because I refused to be in the closet
about being biracial
or because I would stand up for myself
and speak truth in all circumstances,
even when it meant invoking the anger of others
Despite all this,
I knew I had not been sent here to hate.
I had been created to
spread love,
help those in need,
and remember the heart I have,
was given to me by the Ultimate.
I don’t think of its size,
until someone tells me
I have a huge heart
and then I give thanks
for the ability to have stayed loving
through it all,
to be loving
in the midst of it all,
to help others through
the worst of it all
and know that no matter what
the Ultimate’s love
for me and for others
is never ending
and flows from
one heart to another,
I may have a smaller body one day,
but I pray that my heart
will always be huge.
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