I was having a great day: the weather was finally beautiful, I had on my favorite dress and I had even gotten a free coffee at Starbucks from the cute guy behind the counter. Here I was, minding my own business with a smile on my face when a messaged flicked across my screen and instantly ruined my day. The content of the message is trivial, but it attacked my personal and professional skills, which is something that I tend to take very personally. The worst part is, this person did this through a Facebook message; they didn't even have the decency to pick up the phone and tell me! Regardless, I sat staring at my phone in disbelief, feeling like I had just been smacked across the face. Why, you ask? Because one person's rude, unnecessary, demeaning comment belittled something that I had been working on for a long time.

However, it was not this comment that still gets me fired up, instead, it is the fact that I let one person's opinion make me so upset. I pride myself in being a woman of God, which means that I put my life in his hands. That said, I know that the single moment in which I feel content is also the moment that I need to place the most trust in Him. Psalm 56:2 says, "My enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly." Roughly translated into the 21st century, this essentially tells us that "haters gonna hate." I can sit here and pick apart that negative comment forever, but I know that the longer that I dwell on this, the more time is being taken away from what I am meant to be doing.

I could have responded to this comment maliciously. I could have reciprocated the nastiness, but that would only have made me feel worse. Plus, I was raised better than that.

So, as my mom always tells me, let those haters hate. If you are experiencing some negative feedback in your life, then that means you are doing something right! People only attack others when a pocket of insecurity is shaken inside of them. If people want to negatively comment on how I look, what I do, and what I stand for then I say: go for it! I will not let other opinions influence how I value myself. And, more importantly, I will always travel on the high road because, as God tells us: haters gonna hate.