I Humbly Submit: 28 Rwanda Inspired Affirmations

This collection of affirmations was collected over a two week mission trip to Rwanda, my first time to the continent, on the heels of a broken relationship and on the cusp of the next phase of my journey into self awareness and acceptance.

As I watched the people of the lovely country, I noticed their resolve and their strength, as they completed their daily activities, were steeped in gratitude. In those moments of observation, I received an idea from a divine place. I am loved, I am ordained and I belong on this planet at this time. A revelation that a lifetime of seeking to prove I belong, has distracted me from the next leg of this race, purpose.

This heart offering...seeks to reconcile texture and tactile, shades of brown and light, origin and appreciation. Mother of all DNA, know who you are, before you have proof. And if only what is real persists, than I humbly submit that you persist. And you have arrived, at the full circle of having suffered, submitted, been submerged and emerge remembering that the only acceptance, celebration, and embrace comes from within. And was never without. That being seen is to be admired and to be held is to first bewilder then accept.

When you know who you are, you find it easier, and quite amusing to see the attempts of humans, to demand you bow your head, and bend your knee. Then with awareness and with no threat to your heritage, you humbly, submit.