Nicole Avant My mother raised me to believe that the soul is everlasting. She simply did not believe that you could kill someone’s spirit.
The physical body may go away, but the spirit — the Divine essence within us that makes us who we are — is something that is always here.
Since the tragic passing of my mother’s body, I feel her presence alive in different forms. I feel her when I share stories about her with our loved ones, I feel her as I read through her old letters, and admire her beautiful collections of art, books and Japanese lacquer.Lately, I have felt her most when I reflect on her teachings.This is my first Black History Month without her, and I am reminded that if there is one thing my mother never let me leave the house without, it was the knowledge of my history.
James Baldwin said, “History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.”My mother lived these words.
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