A passage from the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast with Oprah that brought me to my knees today, pulled from the episode transcript:
Oprah: “And before that trial, I was always calling Maya Angelou crying about something that somebody said. And I remember one time I called her and I was in the bathroom crying, I don’t even remember what the thing was. And I was in the bathroom, door closed because people were in the house and I didn’t want them to hear me crying. And I was sitting on the toilet seat crying on the phone with her, and she said, “Stop right now and say thank you.”
And I said, “Maya, but you not hearing what I’m saying.”
And she said, “No, say thank you right now.”
“Why am I saying thank you?”
She said, “I said, say thank you.”
And I said, “Thank you.”
She goes, “I want to hear it, thank you.”
‘Thank you.”
She says, “You say thank you, because God’s put a rainbow in the clouds. You just can’t see it. And when you get to the other side, you’ll be able to see that the rainbow was always there. So say thank you because you’re going to come out on the other side of it and you’re going to be better.”
Believing in that rainbow feels like the fight of my life some days. But it was always there. Deep breath.
With Love,
Natalie