All In: A Womanist Baptism into Change and Greatness

Today I choose the waters. Not because life has been easy, but because life has been heavy, relentless, and still God is change.

I have felt the weight of stagnation, the pause that felt like it might never break. But now I know I am standing on the cusp of something great. I am on the edge of a new season, a new manifestation, a new call to rise. Baptism is not just ritual for me, it is revolution. It is me declaring, in the face of everything that tried to drown me, that I will not be destroyed.

Womanist wisdom teaches us that survival is sacred, that our healing is not just for us but for our people. As I enter these waters, I carry my mothers, my grandmothers, the women who held the line before me. I carry the girls who need to see that transformation is possible, that you can be tired and still be triumphant, that you can bend without breaking.

From this moment forward, I declare that anything and anyone I touch will change for the good. Because when God changes me, God also changes the world through me. My life becomes a testimony, a ripple in the waters of liberation.

I rise today not just for myself, but for the ones who will come after me.
I rise because God is change.
I rise because I am ready.
I rise because greatness is not waiting, it is here.