BEAUTIFULLY BECOMING

BEAUTIFULLY BECOMING
Adorning Yourself with the Beauty from Within
A Poetry Collection for Black Women

By Reverend Dr. Chantain M. Lennon, ThD
In His Heart Christian Book Ministries Affirm & Align Women's Ministries

What if the most beautiful thing about you has nothing to do with what you see in the mirror?

What if beauty is also found in the way you survived without becoming bitter, learned to establish boundaries without losing your tenderness, discovered peace after chaos, and finally stopped apologizing for the woman you were created to be?

Beautifully Becoming: Adorning Yourself with the Beauty from Within is an intimate and empowering poetry collection celebrating the inner beauty, depth, resilience, faith, and evolving womanhood of Black women.

Through ten deeply reflective poems, Reverend Dr. Chantain M. Lennon, ThD, Founder and Visionary of In His Heart Christian Book Ministries and its women's ministry, Affirm & Align Women's Ministries, introduces women whose beauty cannot simply be seen, it must be experienced.

Meet the woman of dignified grace whose strength does not require an announcement. The woman of kindness and empathy whose softness survived. The woman of wisdom who knows some things now. The woman of authentic confidence who stopped asking permission to be herself. And discover the women of resilience, self-acceptance, boundaries, peace, and self-respect, all leading to The Woman Who Became.

These women are not strangers.

They are pieces of us.

For the Black woman who has ever compared herself, questioned her worth, carried everyone while neglecting herself, survived difficult seasons, rediscovered her confidence, or simply wondered, Who am I becoming?-these pages offer a mirror for the soul.

Because beautiful is more than how you look.

Beautiful is how you love.
How you heal.
How you rise.
How you carry yourself.
How you protect your peace.
How you honor God.
And how you finally learn to honor yourself.

You were never created to spend your life becoming someone else.

You were created to become beautifully, completely, authentically you.

From In His Heart Christian Book Ministries and Affirm & Align Women's Ministries, Beautifully Becoming is an invitation to adorn the woman within, and discover just how beautiful she has been all along.

Reverend Dr. Chantain M. Lennon ThD