Monica Smith

My favorite poem is "She" because it was truly a poem of self discovery. I began writing this poem with such admiration for "She" I thought what an amazing woman. The confidence that she exuded in the poem was so attractive. I remember wishing that I was her. What freedom she had found in herself through Christ. At the end of the poem was really a journey into how God views his daughters and even more specifically how He was speaking to me through the poem that She is me.

This book came about as a natural process of my healing. I started writing "Just as I Am as a journal. A journal of what I had went through, what I was going; as well as, what I was witnessing in the church but no one was talking about. Even though I had been saved I had these haunting images and beliefs about myself that blocked me from seeing myself as God sees me. In the process some of the responses came from God revealing His heart on how he sees us through Jesus. At the end of writings I discover that all the time I've wasted there are other hurting women out there who need to hear my story, who need to hear about a Savior.