We are so powerful! Sometimes I forget just how utterly powerful I am...until I look up and see something I've desired has miraculously materialized. A case in point. I've secretly longed to do a book reading slash signing in Paris, France. Some of my all time favorite authors were expatriates, leaving America to live and write in Paris to escape racism. People like James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes.
I've been to Paris about three and a half times now. That half time was brief; I was coming back from South Africa and we stopped in Paris for a day or so. Well, another desire of my heart was realized this past June when my friend Latesha invited me to go to Paris with her.
Thanks to Ricki Stevenson, founder and owner of Black Paris Tours, a sister I met some 12 years ago via a magazine article that I read and saved, I did a book reading and signing in Paris. Ricki, God bless her, not only invited a group of passionate, beautiful, intelligent sisters but a good sisterfriend of hers, Kathleen Dameron, graciously hosted the event in her gorgeous home. The sun was shining outside and food and wine was plentiful inside. Those sisters, all of whom live in Paris or are bi-continental, made me want to go on forever reading and answering questions; they were so interested.
I was the star attraction. The only thing I did was show up. It wasn't even my idea to have the event, it was Ricki's. She said she wanted to do it and she made it happen.
What did I do? First, I held the vision. Someone reminded former president Bill Clinton, "It's your job to hold the vision!" when he started to get off track. Next, I didn't sabotage it. You know what I'm talking about. Things are going great...and you can't stand the glory so you derail the train. Finally, I showed up and let Spirit speak through me. It happened on a Friday. Every time I thought about writing something out, nothing came. So I trashed that idea and decided to trust the process. Things flowed and I was fabulous!
You are powerful beyond measure. Whatever you believe is possible is possible. You hold the vision, that's your job! God handles the details.
Love Addicted was instrumental in helping me to change the course of my life! ~ Letrice Gant
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