“Twant me, ‘‘twas the Lord. I always told him, ‘I trust you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,’ and He always did.” – Harriet TUBMAN

Here stands a woman we all admire. Her strength, resiliency and determination to be free inspires regardless of what divides us. I am fascinated that Harriet with all her setbacks , weaknesses and obstacles rose up to victory; not in the name of herself or feminism or social justice. She rose in the name of God who gave her strength. Americans should look to her , perhaps we should look to how she walked, prayed and believed, perhaps we ought to look to her savior and her faith and find strength for our own journey to freedom. It’s not politics that divide us or color or religion in my opinion, what divides is that we are enslaved by our own self-righteousness , sinful nature and the need to be right. It is the heart of man that needs to be set free above all else. “ God’s time is always near. He set the north star in the heavens; he gave me the strength in my limbs; he meant I should be free.” – Harriet Tubman Harriet cannot be separated in any way from her faith in a loving God without forfeiting her accomplishments and giving up the freedom she gained. It was her desire for freedom working in tandem with her faith in the power of God that broke the chains she was bound by. I want to remember that Harriet struck against the root of slavery with one act of bravery, but there have been many since then; the freedoms we have access to today in this country were first sought by those who trusted in God to free them. we cannot have one without the other. Freedom without God or God without freedom.Dear God raise up a generation of Harriet Tubmans! “I could have freed thousands more, she said, if they had only known they were slaves”