What Name Are You Carrying?

What’s your name? What name identifies you? I am not talking about the name given to you at birth or adoption, your married name, not even your nick name. I’m talking about the labels you may have been given, picked up or even embraced. You know labels like stupid, failure, mistake, prostitute, dumb, baby mama, useless, Ms. Goody Two Shoes, reject, unlovable, defeated, good-for-nothing, victim, you’ll never be anything, your standards are too high, tramp, trifling, addict, drunk, insignificant, less than, disadvantaged, broke, too educated…

Sisters, when words like these are used to describe us, they usually depict someone else’s (and sometimes our own) opinions of us. Those words also give us an idea of what the person feels about themselves and/or how they view themselves. See, if I am bitter, I can’t make you feel better. I don’t have better in me to give you. I can only give you what I have.

Yes, maybe you failed in a certain area of your life, or multiple areas in your life or maybe even more than once in the same area, this does not mean you are a failure. Maybe you have been abused, raped or violated in some other way, that doesn’t make you a victim for the rest of your life. Ok, so you didn’t excel in school work. That doesn’t make you dumb, maybe you learn differently from others.

Again, I ask the question: What name are you carrying?

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