Remembering Maya Angelou: God Loves Me

A week ago, the world lost a brilliant, loving and ferocious woman. Maya Angelou was a poet, professor and civil rights advocate. She used a difficult life as a channel for bettering herself and empowering those around her to do the same.

I'll admit that I don't really have heroes in this world. But there is no woman in modern history who has inspired me more.

Dr. Angelou was also a Christian, and while the particulars of our faith differ, she expresses perfectly in this video a lesson that can be a struggle even for longtime believers.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May she and all the faithful departed, through the mercy of Christ, rest in peace.