Urban Thought Collective

To My UTC Family,

I pray that each person that crosses your path experiences the light of God within you.

Let your eyes be a gaze of love that melts away all negative forces.

Let your smile be one that awakens peace within all who see it.

Let your words speak the power of God and reverberate within every cell of their being.

Let your touch be healing, freeing them of unnecessary weight they unknowingly carry in their lives.

Let your life be an extraordinary example of how God is one with all and that there is no separation between you and the Most High.

I pray you recognize your unique gift to the world and have the courage to share it.

I pray that you are flexible like the leaves blowing in the wind, yet, sturdy like the sand who endures that constant crash of ocean waves.

I pray that the split second of doubt and discouragement disappears because you’ve decided that your dreams are more important than your fears.

I pray your families and friends are wowed by your greatness enough to step out on faith and pursue their own dreams.

I pray that you trust yourself, trust the path you choose, trust the direction you are instructed to take and trust the place that you arrive in is exactly where you need to be.

Each week we have been discussing my life and our world, and with your comments, I am truly aware that fascinating people surround me. Some of you don’t know it, some of you do. Your words are powerful and always confirm the presence of God in all of us. I am honored you are in my life and I pray we continue to share this journey together.

May the love, peace and blessings of God be upon you.

And so it is.

UTC readers: In all that we seek to be or do or have, we humbly realize that in the Presence is our power to think, our very thought of aspiration, our will to commence, our strength to keep on, our power to achieve, and the glory of all our accomplishments. This is the Truth and it is now done. ~ A prayer from “Discover the Power Within You”

Envisioning you with much love, light and fulfillment. See you next week.

Yaminah Ahmad is editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Voice and contributing editor to Collective Voices, a newspaper published by the non-profit, SisterSong: Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective. More information on the group can be found at www.sistersong.net. Ahmad can be reached at missyaminah@gmail.com.