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| Maya Angelou in 2008 (Photo by Talbot Troy) |
Although Maya Angelou had been associated with worship centers for most of her life, she was feeling depleted as she approached her 80th birthday.
She told The Associated
Press in 2013, “I felt really done in by the work I was doing, people who had expected things of me.”
Around that time, as her son Guy Johnson was having his tenth spinal operation, Angelou attended a Unity church service in Miami.
The preacher, “a young black man” in a mostly white church, challenged the group by saying, “I have only one question to ask, and that is, ‘Why have you decided to limit God?’”
When Angelou heard that, she immediately thought, “That’s exactly what I have been doing.” The preacher
then asked her to say a few words to the congregation.
These words turned out to be simple, yet heartfelt. Angelou
stood up and said, “Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you…
THANK YOU” - fifty times over.
The audience began saying it with her.
And meaning it, no doubt.
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/university-poet-author-maya-angelou-dies-86-134624581.html
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