Sarah Jakes Roberts

Like, maybe you've heard one of my messages, read one of my books, and you're here because you know who I am.

But the most important person in this room is the person who's sitting beside you.

And we are intentional about creating connection because shame is isolating, doubt is isolating, worry is isolating.

What I found out when I started blogging is that I wasn't by myself, right?

There was this tunnel that I was living in that made me believe that I was the only one who had ever felt discarded, the only one who had ever felt damaged and that there was something wrong with me.

Man, I owe as much to Woman Evolve as the women who I've been able to serve say that they owe to me because they helped me to see that I wasn't in it on my own.

I feel no need to try and talk myself out of being an imposter.

There are parts of me that have no business standing where I am.

I know where I've come from.

I know what I've gone through.

I know that there are people who are more eloquent, people who are more studied, people who on paper would be a better fit for the things that I do.

But I'm the one here.

And because I'm the one here, I'm going to step into the moment with everything I have or don't have.

That makes up the difference for me.

And it's an offering.

My life is an offering.

I'm not here to prove anything to anyone.

I am already so much further than I ever thought that I would be that like maybe I shouldn't be up here.

But since I'm the one who's got the mic right now, I'm going to serve the moment well until whoever's supposed to be here finally makes it here on time.

Until then, this is going to be the moment that I stand up to whatever's in front of me.