Growing up I always thought to be strong meant I couldn’t cry. Where did this come from? Is this just a black thing? I mean who says women can’t cry or they are viewed as “weak” or “emotional?”
Yesterday I felt like a ton of bricks fell on me. I cried, I was hurt, I was heartbroken BUT I never stopped trusting in God and His perfect plan.
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Oh Whitnee……I was crying last night in the store. But Yes. Mrs. Davis has always been strong. Always. So Just like she is, We just have to trust God’s Plan.
Amen and we will trust in God’s plan for her life and for our own. He makes no mistakes!
It takes the strongest to cry because of what we endure and overcome this one really hit home because I’m there with you everysteo if the way this is test of faith that we shall win as long as we continue to pray wholeheartedly our prayers will be answered crying is the most underrated emotion but it’s also the overflow of all of your emotions I think we all should express it more the world would be such a better place
I thank God for you being here every step of the way. Thanks darling for spitting poetry on my page. It shows you are listening to my cry. I love you! Thank you for being MY strong man who doesn’t mind a woman crying!
Walking through a times of season with a loved one who has cancer is very hard and emotional – AND THAT IS OK! Cry, laugh, be angry, be sad, and be happy whenever you need to be. Allow those emotions to come out and allow your friends and family to hold your hand during them. You are not weak. You are a child of God. I love you Whitnee and am here for you.
Thank you so much Anna and I love you too. Thanks for understanding I am human and I feel just like anyone else fills. Thank you for voicing it’s okay to express yourself. Oh how I needed those words of encouragement. Thank you and thank God for friends like you!!
Powerful message. Many prayers to Momma Willa. My prayers are with you and Reigs as well. God is almighty and if he healed before he can do it again, that is my prayer. 🙏
Amen amen and amen. We claim it in the name of Jesus. His Will be done on Earth!
Thank you for sharing and being so transparent Whitnee! You are changing the narrative on what it means to “be strong” and your message is needed. I will be lifting your mom and your family in prayer ❤️
Thank you so much Ashanti! When I couldn’t cry when I was younger, I learned to journal. Over the years I stopped journaling and starting crying but it didn’t provide the spiritual healing I was searching. That came from trial and error and by combining my tears with writing to try and encourage someone else who may be going through something similar.
Thanks again for your prayers, please always know I am praying for you and yours.
He has his hands on you, He said he’ll see you thru, WHEN YOU CRY HE”S HOLDING YOU, Just lift your hands up high, He will provide, Just know he has his hands on you. Marvin Sapp’s song. Yes so many women are raised to be strong. But those who are strong and cry are the best women! That shows they have a heart for GOD and people, they show us they care. Sometimes that’s just where GOD wants us. With a broken and contrite heart crying out to him. Then he knows we’re depending on him so he shows us favor. That’s when we are weak and he is strong. You are a wonderful young role model for women. Thank you for being brave enough to tell us of you struggles. Keep being you.
Aww Ms. Onnie you have brought tears of joy to my eyes. I would never look at myself as a role model lol just someone trying to make a difference for the good. Thank you for the compliment and I pray that God will remain the center of my focus and He continues to give me the courage to share with others my fears and my downfalls and yet rejoicing in them along with my joys and my successes.
Sharing this journey with women like you inspire me to keep on keeping on and that gives me strength.
You my friend are a role model, a breath of fresh air, and a humble servant that I love and adore. Keep allowing God to use you in a mighty way!
Whitnee, we will all cry with you and pray diligently for your sweet mom. To be “weak” is to be willing to acknowledge that we need God. For we do desperately need God. Cry out to him. I love you, my friend. ❤️
I love you too and I thank you for your wisdom and simple but powerful way of putting things. When “I grow up” I pray I can be a profound writer like you using less words. I would have written a book just to simply say what you did. Thank you for being beacon of hope for me!!!!!
I love all these comments…Look at this beautiful circle of love and support that surrounds you and your mother, Whitnee. Your love, prayers and support for ALL OF US had cultivated this!
We surround you with our unceasing prayers and we will get through this with you.
I believe that God heals us through our tears. Only in our weakness and vulnerability can God’s strength shine through us. I’m thinking of the verse from Romans 8 this morning how the Spirit intercedes for us “in our weakness” and interprets to God our groaning. What a tender and loving God who hears and understands even and especially our cries…
Love you and praying for you, dear sister!
Kelly,
If I were of a lighter complexion I am sure you could see my rosy, red cheeks. Well you know how I felt about this post, I did not want to be viewed as being “weak minded” or “too emotional” but then I wanted to share the raw truth because to be honest we all have moments like this but no one shares.
I was tired of living in the world feeling like “something was wrong with me” just because I like to express myself through words. Back in April 2015, I would have never imagined putting my “pain to the pen” would help me to grow mentally and spiritually and that people would ever take the time to read what was on my heart. We always say we are our worst critics and I can admit I am. But then I realized, it’s not about Whitnee’, it is about the Lord. I wanted to write so people know despite what we face, how we are feeling, or what have you, GOD IS STILL GOOD! Because that is my focus I DON’T necessarily care about if people view me as “weak” because God knows my heart. He truly knows my heart and I love Him so deeply!
I am happy that God has grown the circle of believers around me and I give Him all the honor, glory, and the praise! I know this battle is not ours it is the Lords, and we will fight this battle on our knees together my friend.
Thank you sweet friend and sister, and I love you more!
How often do we feel we need to be STRONG!!! Yet God uses the weak to carry out his will because we can be weak and still show God’s power working in us! You are a strong woman yet God is who gives you strength. Show your emotions girl! We are human.
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Tell Mrs. Willa I sorry she has to go through this journey again. I will say a prayer for her. God and her faith in God has her.
Thanks Mrs. Vernadine,
How are you and the family? I will definitely telling her. She is looking at it as God is using her in a new way and she is being very positive about it and I am so proud of her strength.
Thank you for your prayers!