@tavelarocque: day 63 of the @higherupwellness speak your mind challenge she couldnt read. she couldnt write. and a kingdom followed her into battle anyway. joan of arc was a teenage peasant girl in a country that had been losing a war for almost a hundred years. she couldnt sign her own name. no rank, no training, no reason on earth for anyone to listen to her. what she had was a total unshakeable belief that god was calling her to save france. and heres the part that should stop you. she convinced a king. she convinced his generals. she convinced hardened soldiers to follow a seventeen year old girl into the fight. they broke the siege of orleans and months later she watched the man she fought for be crowned king. she was still a teenager. then they captured her, and at nineteen they burned her at the stake. almost five hundred years later that same church admitted it had been wrong and made her a saint. the peasant girl who couldnt write her own name became one of the patron saints of an entire nation. she didnt move a kingdom because she was old enough or trained enough or ready. she moved it because she believed all the way down. what was stopping you was never your age or your experience. its that you dont believe it yet. #joanofarc #faith #conviction #catholic #philosophy