I have never experienced racism before but I do know the pain of rejection. I had never really failed before professionally but I was out of work and no one would even hire me to take out the trash. This lead to a three year cycle of small wins but far more major failures. I had never been depressed before either but now I knew the darkness of living in the black hole. This post by Natasha Robinson brought it all back in a very inspiring way:
“Something is just not right. It’s that feeling we get when someone’s voice changes, when the air suddenly feels heavy, or when your gut tells you something is not as it should be. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson remembers the day she realized the world was different, heavier, and that as a young African American girl, there would be pain. But like Moses, she also discovered that out of places of vulnerability and pain, God can bring passion and great purpose. It’s an unspeakable grace to welcome Natasha to the farm’s front porch today…”