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What Is Maya Angelah?

Today I was asked, “What is Maya Angelah?”. I was taken back a bit because I've often been asked who I am, but never have I been asked what I am. I sat with the question for a while. What is Maya Angelah? 

Naturally my brain went into the possible nouns of the matter. I’m a woman, an Aunty, a daughter of Christ, a dreamer, a wife (for manifestation purposes), a creative, a hopeful romantic, a writer. Since we already established that the question is ‘what’ instead of ‘who’, I am safe, loyal, honest, hopeful, and I am love. The list could go on, but for some reason that list felt generic. It felt quite basic actually, and for those that don’t know me personally, you must understand that Maya Angelah could never and would never associate with anything basic. So, I sat with the question for a longer while. 

What is Maya Angelah?

After some time, I decided that if I had to describe myself as a what instead of a who, I would need to come up with something more complex and with depth. 

I remembered talking with a new friend who was perplexed by me, because he could see the intensity of my thought process just by observing me. Eventually I learned his brain works in a similar way, so he was intrigued. He just sat and stared at me and sporadically pointed at me saying “you're very intelligent”.  He observed me for some time in an attempt to analyze me, but also to analyze why analyzing me was so imperative for him at that moment. After about an hour or two, he told me he would have questions for me in the next few weeks. Of course, I asked him why he needed weeks, and he said because he could see my wheels turning so, he wanted to make sure he asked the right questions to maximize depth.  

So, boom, there's my solution. I needed to ask myself the right questions in order to answer the question, "What is Maya Angelah?" Some of the questions i asked myself were along the lines of:

What does Maya Angelah mean?

What does being Maya Angelah feel like?

What would Maya Angelah translate to outside of my physical being? 

What should Maya Angelah mean to others?

Based on how I live my life, what message does Maya Angelah project into the world?

See, the thing is, my new friend that planned to observe and analyze me for a few weeks in order to ask me the right questions hones the formula of genius. He understands that seeing life from various angles, different perspectives, and multiple layers creates the necessary variables to not only eliminate the wrong questions while generating the right ones, but this also creates the opportunity for the right questions to nearly answer themselves. That’s what happened when i asked myself those questions.

 

What does Maya Angelah mean?

What does being Maya Angelah feel like?

What does Maya Angelah mean outside of my physical being? 

What does Maya Angelah translate to for others?

What message does Maya Angelah project into the world?

Based on who I am, how I am, where I am, and why I am, there is only one great answer to the question, “What is Maya Angelah”. 

Maya Angelah is self-belief. 

The basis of who I know myself to be, how I’ve lived my life, how I present in this world, where I’ve been, where I am now, where I am going, and why I’ll never give up or settle is rooted in self-belief.

Self-belief is one of the greatest superpowers of the mind, soul, and spirit. It becomes the indestructible trajectory toward whatever you set your mind to; a driving force that only increases in speed and power every time who you believe you are, is affirmed in truth. Belief in yourself is the only way to live a life without limitations and restrictions. 

Now, I cannot tell you how to attain belief in yourself from scratch, because I do not remember a time without any. However, I can tell you how mine became indestructible and unshakeable.

Like I said before, I've believed in myself as early as I can remember, but the dark side of that is I spent my entire life trying to keep my self-belief intact because the human experience has a way of trying to diminish lights that shine brightly. If I am being honest, there was a time or ten when life almost got the best of me, and dimmed my light so much it was too dark to find my way back to the bright and vibrant version of me that carried the audacity to believe in myself. 

As odd as it may sound, I have to admit that I am most grateful for those seasons of darkness, because without them I would have never been able to achieve the levels of self-belief that are indestructible or unshakeable. It took a shattered version of me to be able to receive the Savior that is and provides the firm foundation that my self-belief now stands on. 

My self-belief gradually becomes more indestructible and unshakable as my personal relationship with Jesus Christ develops and my understanding of His love evolves. Why? Because He who I regard the highest, lives in me through the Holy Spirit. So if God Himself lives inside of me, what can’t I achieve and who can stop me? “If God stands before me, who can stand against me?” vibes.

Knowing Jesus and understanding of His presence within me has truly transformed my entire human experience into a fertile womb that bears the fruits of His sacrifice and harvests the crops of His favor.

"Christ is my firm foundation; the rock on which I stand when everything around me is shaking."     - Maverick City Music

Later but soon,

Maya Angelah