I wrote "In God's Hands" while I was riding to my brother's job one day in 2002.
I had become frustrated with people telling me how my life should be.
According to the world, at the age of 32, I should be married with two kids, have a car, and a house, but alas, I don't.
For some strange reason, that day, it was heavily on my mind. As I sat thinking, I remember something I had told someone who was trying to pray me up a husband. I told that person, "Between the Lord and I, I think we got it under control." When I thought of that, "In God's Hands" began to flow from my heart. So, I wrote it.
The stanza that says:
"My success is not predicated on what society says.
Because if the truth be told,
I could be baby less
And my husband in jail for having made me baby less.
Thank you, God.
Intervention in the person of my father."
Wasn't going to be added to the poem, but I felt the urge to add it to the poem. This stanza and statement rings so true. I was proposed to when I was 17. My dad told me that I wasn't ready to get married. I received a lot of flack behind that from the religious people in my life at that time. The guy married someone else. Within a year or two, the guy was in jail for killing his baby. That could have very easily been me.
Thank you, God.
Intervention in the person of my father."
That's how I know, my life is "In God's Hands"!Labels: 2002, Inspiration |
