Linebacker for God

One day I watched the movie Facing your Giants, and one part of the movie the coach tells one of his team leaders to do the death crawl across the field blind folded. I watched this segment over and over again, understanding that God called me to be a leader in this world no matter where I walked. Whether I was at school, or work, or any place on this earth, I had a responsibility to be the person he created me to be.

From the time I was born I was raised by more men than women, I learned to play basketball, baseball, football, and was a woman among men learning to challenge myself to be the best person I could be regardless of anyone in society that ever said I couldn't do anything because I was a woman.

My brother's in life pushed me hard, challenged me to be a fighter as I watched them and participated with them in sports. I learned to throw a football, race my mountain bike through the woods trying to keep up with my brother's. I learned to work hard to keep up with them and always give my best.

From my brother's in life I learned to tackle problems head on and push hard against the obstacles in life that Max Lucado called his book, Facing your Giants. I had more giants in my life from the day I was born till this very day, and I fought hard, and struggled, but I always faced my giants, and looked for God to always guide me in the right direction.

He always placed people there to make sure I reached that end zone. I've had many coaches in life, and they pushed me hard and challenged me to keep going every time I wanted to buckle down, and get stuck in life.

My brother's taught me to not to be a quitter, and to never give up. Men were my equals in life no matter who they were. They never looked at me as a weaker vessel, but one that could move mountains and obstacles in life. They've made me one of the strongest women by giving me that drive to push even when it hurts, and you want to stop, and even when you want to quit, they always encouraged me to keep moving and moving no matter what it looked like, or felt like, or seemed in the moment. Walking by faith was like being blind folded you couldn't see where you were going, but only depended on God to guide you in the right direction.

When I watched this movie I had realised how much of a linebacker for God I had become. God was counting on me to help others in their lives with what I had experienced in my life.

The challenge was being the leader that God desired. So where do you learn to be a leader? The last year some one had told me study all the leaders in the world and find out from their life stories how they got there. What mistakes they made and what things they did right.

I also had a professor from Africa that taught me read every book you can find, and keep doing what you're doing because even though every author may not be right and correct you will learn something to help you get to where you want to go in life to succeed.

After doing a presentation in his class on genocide and the class applauded, I understood from watching CATO, and another Group in the Uk that I saw the world in a very different perspective than most people did in my community. I saw I had the same views as them, and had some how reached to the same level as a Harvard student or Prep school on my own. I listened to hours of humanitarian sites and understood that Facing your Giants is not being afraid to speak your mind, even if no one else agrees with what you have to say. Facing your Giants means not thinking about what everyone else is going to say, or whether they accept it, like it, or want to hear it, my truth is always being my true self, and to be anything less or more is settling for less than who God created me to be.

If God gave me the ability of leadership than I shouldn't waste it, and learn everything I can about being a humanitarian and leader in this world examining all leaders of every kind, whether they were humanitarian, spiritual, political, activists. Learning from them all you really can't go wrong because they all share a different perspective, and you can study history and see where they made mistakes and where they fell.

I understood this in my WWII Class as this professor talked about the different Leaders all over the globe, and another International Relations professor put countless CIA and Goverment Documents in front of my eyes that told me the truth in the world.

I will listen to anyone, and I will hear what they have to say, but I understand that there is so much to learn in the world about humanity.

In the end of it all God just expects me to be my best like Max Lucado stated in Facing Your Giants. My whole life there will always be obstacles and people in my way of my success, but I have learned to decipher who is appropriate to guide my abilities and who is not. I don't have time to argue with them, I rather just keep moving toward the goal and walking by faith and not by sight, that God will always put the right leaders in front of me, and keep my eyes focused on God.

I don't believe God cares if I am a woman, if he wants to use me in this world, he will! He is an awesome mighty God, and fortunately I do not regret having the brother's in my life that have challenged me to be my best, if it were not for them, I would not be the person I am today.