My Authentic Self

When searching for my authentic self one day, I found it buried beneath a facade of physical beauty, affluence, college degrees, and relationships. These worldly treasures had become an illusion that prevented the revelation of the deeper person inside. I prayed for freedom. 

Oh Lord, please strip away the emptiness that enslaves me and give me life anew.

Freedom rose up to meet me and I was reborn. 

In Freedom,

Carol Marchant Gibbs

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