A warrior's Heart

I have read this book several times since I bought it in '98 or '99. I have always thought this passage was really cool... Would be nice to think that... And dismissed it.


"I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had know I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd been born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms."

I am doing the work, I am facing my fears, I am discovering these things about myself, but He is giving me the protection, the "safe zone" to work in... He has believed in me even when I didn't believe in myself. It is because of Him that I am finding out that I really like the real me... I am the person I wanted to be all along, I just didn't have the courage to stand up and say "this is me!"
I realized that I AM a strong, courageous woman... And I DO have a warrior's heart.