If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?" -Esther 4:14
I began Krowning Glory to uplift both the unnoticed
Queens and noticed Queens out there. I say that it is for both because just
because one queen may be more socially accepted be not fooled we all struggle
with some of the same issues. I'm featuring this newly elected Queen (Miss
Spellman 2015-2016) to show that you don't have to fit a stereotype to own your
crown. There was a time when I myself envisioned running for University Queen
at my alma mater. So to actually see it be done by someone who looks like me,
words can't explain how overjoyed I am for Ms. Ariana. Do I regret not
running? No! Mainly because it wasn't in
God's will and I was still blessed to serve my university in other positions.
I hope with featuring Queen Ariana it
eliminates those preconceived notions of who is worthy of a crown. I prayed
that it also encourages other queens in the making to realize you have to fully
embrace who you are if you are to ever bear the weight of your own crown.
Realized that all crowns won’t be as visible as the one she is holding but it
is still recognized. Your own personal crown isn't a one size fits all it is
customized just for you. And the jewels and gems that make up our crowns are
specialized stones orchestrated perfectly to illuminate the radiance from the
inside out. But the crown can’t be
effective if it is missing a few gems or even worse nowhere to be found!
Know this… you cannot be the Queen without the
crown. There will be no way to tell you apart from the peasants. So as Queen
you must own all that makes up your crown otherwise your head will fall from
the pressure. It represents the beauty of you. Your crown will consist of both
failures and achievements. The jewels in your crown will have both weaknesses
and strengths and all will make up the structure and foundation of your crown.
But what will shine the brightest is not our perfect features or the perfect
façade we may try to create. No, the gems gleaming the brightest and putting
the others to shame are the ones showing all our imperfections and scars, the
things that make us human. Because it will serve as proof of the strength of
the women who is strong enough to own all of who she is. And she has no problem
with owning it because she knows that it makes her the beautiful queen she is.
She also realized that if she embraces her crown fully she is also giving other
women the right and the strength to embrace theirs.
Thank you Ms. Spellman for giving future queens
permission to embrace who they are and continue to be an inspiration to all!
Queen your crown is waiting......
Krowning Glory
