Permission Granted

I don’t need your permission so why do I seek your consent?

Do I still need your acceptance just so my soul can be content?

When your clearance of my actions won’t give me an endorsement

My heavenly blessing has been sanctioned by the power of agreement 

You can’t authorize, deputize, legitimatize, anything I am called to do

This will be the very last day that I bow down and seek permission from you

There is no stamp of approval needed to make me seem more real

For there is one who crowned my head and upon me is His seal

Fearfully and wonderfully free to be what He has called me to be

Nothing others have said and done can take this truth of my destiny

So I remove the power of authority that I continue to give away

Walking strong in my design without apology every day

That outrageous lie that I must submit and remember the days of slavery

Where I was bound by chains that denied the very Creator inside of me

I am proud! I say it loud! To every crowd!

I AM Me!

So I take back my banner request for you to tell me it’s ok

The only voice that really matters is the one when I pray

He says… Be who you were called to be

Do the things you were called to do

Live the life you were meant to live

Just align with my design, stay in time, and remember you are mine

And please stop asking for continual permission.

Amen  Charmaine Hinds