The Healing is in heels! Thank you!
I never knew that there was a connection between healing and heels. Growing up, I loved heels. I am about heels. I recalled this family event in 2009, where I worked and walked for over 8 hours with 6 inches high heels while serving and moving around at a family wedding, after which I struggled with intense body pain. Those were the years I thought a woman was incomplete without heels. Not anymore!
As an undergrad, it did not help that I had this classmate that made a spot of high heels( wearing heels from school to FT). More so, if you attended Covenant when I did, and you don't know that part of being a CU student was wearing extremely high heels on Sunday that you struggled with while you stylishly hold hands with your friends like you are doing sisterhood things, but the truth is you are struggling in that heels(lol). Particularly, suppose your hostel is between one of those buildings behind the library (Lydia, Dorcas, and Deborah hall). In that case, we all know everything (hair, heels, and other accouterments) comes off at that wide spot behind the library. But sorry, that is not the heel I am talking about.
The high heels are not where healing is. It is in another heel. When Sarah Jakes Roberts(SJR) started her woman Evolve movement many years ago, one of the things I loved about it was how she was helping women to rethink their lives through the lenses of Eve. Eve is not that role model discussed at Christain Women's Conferences compared to the proverb 31 Woman. The church doesn't associate much with Eve but curses. SJR shows us what we are missing from the life of this Gospel First Lady.
Turning in the Scriptures to Genesis 3:15, SJR showed us that the judgment to Eve no doubt includes that the serpent will bruise her heel, but it did not stop there. It says this woman's bruise heel will crush the serpent's head. Can bruised heels, broken feet, and damaged legs crush the serpent's head? Yes! My people, broken crayons still color! SJR assures every woman who sees her limitations, flaws, and incompetence and wonders what she can do with it that broken heels crush Satan's head.
This is one of the things that keeps me going: bruised heel crushes the serpent's head. Whatever has bruised me, there is still power in bruised feet to crush my goals, fulfill my aspiration, leave a legacy, and make meaning of the labor of my parent and sister-mum.
What is the serpent that has bruised you? Grief? Divorce? Rejection? Name it, I dare you as I dare myself in SJR's voice every other day when I feel like giving up "girl get up"!
I write publicly in what I sometimes call a public diary which is a form of nudity in a way, given how I put pain and occasionally pleasure into words and disrobe myself. I do this partly because I want people to see beyond whatever success you associate with me that I have stories, scars, struggles, stains, scriptures, and songs just like you.
As I write this, I am grateful to God, not for life. Enough of "gratitude shaming" the dead, like many of them, have a choice. I am thankful for his purpose, strategies, and God's stories, of which my stories and my life are a part. One of my favorite Bible teachers, Dr. Cynthia James, once said, our story is His story as His story is ours. In addition, I am grateful for these lines from Tosin Oni's song.
Fun gbogbo ohun toju tiri ti o fo (The things that the eye sees and did not go blind)
Fun gbogbo ohun ti eti to gbo ti o di(The things that the ears heard and did not become deaf)
Fun gbogbo ohun ti ori ti ro ti o daru (The things that the mind thought of but did not become deranged)
Thank you to everyone who posted publicly and privately and the many who did both.
Thank you to everyone who called; sorry if I did not pick up (I am still trying to remind myself it is called a mobile phone)
I am grateful!
Posted on Facebook on August 26, 2022.
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