Resilient Joy :Get Your Bounce Back

for 10 seconds Serena Williams danced the Crypt walk at the Super Bowl and because of those ten seconds the world completely lost control In 2012 she also danced after her London tennis championship win yet the world's perception of that produced a negative spin how dare this Black woman dominate their sport? how dare this Black woman dance on their tennis court? resilience in our joy is what Black women are all about we may fall down but we bounce back with nary a doubt for our resilience grows out of our challenges, disappointments and pain our ability to bounce back is how we have sustained somehow, some way we will always show up and show out for in our resilience and in our resistance any situation we will surmount after fleeing from the Egyptian pharaoh Miriam and her sisters danced for joy their resilience and resistance in their oppression kept their spirits from being destroyed as women have been resilient since the beginning of time because our strength of character and adaptability gives us the fortitude to perpetually climb out of life's pits of despair and abysses of hell women keep on bouncing back as the joy in us continuously swells we got biblical joy that allows us to rejoice and be a joy to God which gives us our resilience and the strength of heart for it is in the presence of God where we find healing and comfort for our souls where we get a fullness of spirit that makes us joyful and whole we get resilience in our dancing which is the embodiment of true joy because dancing releases endorphins our pleasure hormones get deployed we get resilience in community because as women we move in unity we find our joy in our sisterhood as our strength in each other manifests communally transformative resilience allows us to bounce forward and not bounce backward in life as we move in resistance with persistence wielding our Spirit of the Sword in the name of Christ no longer will we be reluctant to show the world our Blackity-Black for we are women with a resilient joy and we got our godly bounce back