BHBW April Affirmation

By: Zenobia Bryant, Ph.D.

 Introduction to the BHBW Monthly Affirmations:

            This is not the first time that I have done affirmations but this is the first time that I have been able to be consistent for this long.  What made this attempt different?  Rooting the affirmations in scriptures found in the Bible.  Personally, my faith is important.  It is the foundation that my life rests upon.  I do not consider myself to be radically religious and I have found myself questioning and investigating many ideas I was taught growing up, but I am deeply spiritual and I constantly seek to deepen my relationship with The Creator.

            In the past, I have constantly told myself negative refrains to the point that I actually believed them.  So for me, simply changing the negative refrain to a positive refrain did not mean much.  I can tell myself anything but that doesn’t make it true.  Personally, I needed the affirmation grounded in something beyond my imagination.  Therefore, since each affirmation featured on Black Health Black Wealth is taken from my personal journal, each affirmation is inspired by scripture(s) from the Bible. 

April’s Affirmation:

Who I am in this world is ENOUGH!

            The affirmation for the month of April is “who I am in this world is enough!” Goddess, who you are, just as you are, is enough!  Many times I have felt that my accomplishments, my deeds, or my accolades are what added to my worth. The more I had of these things, the more I was worth.  Without those things I was worth nothing.  If I was worth nothing, then I was not worthy of anything! The affirmation for this month reminds me that I am valuable simply because The Creator made me.  The moment I was conceived in the womb, I was enough.  I don’t need to do more, say more, or earn more to be worthy of the space I take up in this world. 

            Psalm 8:3-4 says “When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon, and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”  When I read the Bible I make it personal that way it doesn’t feel like God, my Creator, is so far away from me.  So when I read this passage I read “What is man that you are mindful of [me], and the son of man that you care for [me]?” Which is a question I have often asked myself.  Who am I and what must I do in order to matter?  When I read further it says “yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.  You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.”  What I read for myself is “yet you have made [me] a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned [me] with glory and honor.  You have given me dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under [my] feet!” 

            Elsewhere in the Bible, it says that humans are created in the likeness and image of God so it must be true that I am made a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned with glory and honor!  The same hands that crafted the heavens, the moon, the stars, the oceans, and all the things that leave my mouth agape in awe are the same hands that created and formed me!  If the same hands that created the expanse of the universe created me, then surely, without a doubt, who and what He created me as is ENOUGH!  I don’t need to add anything nor do I need to take anything away!  And Goddess, neither do you! You too are created in His likeness and image!  You too are created a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned with glory and honor!  Goddess, who you are in this world is ENOUGH!