Lydia Owens, a high school valedictorian in South Carolina, has gone viral for a speech detailing how she learned to find her value in her faith amid recent hardships in her life. has gone viral for her graduation speech explaining how she has learned to find her value in her Christian faith.
Lydia Owens, valedictorian and senior class president at Woodmont High School in Greenville, told those who attended her graduation how her faith has sustained her amid recent hardships in her life,"No matter what your future holds, please remember that your life is so much more than how successful you are," Owens said in her speech.
Owens went on to explain in the three-minute speech how her perspective changed two years ago after the death of her mother, who she said was her biggest inspiration. Lydia Owens, who is valedictorian and senior class president at Woodmont High School in Greenville, told those who attended her graduation how her faith has sustained her amid recent hardships in her life.
"I had that reality check almost two years ago when my mom passed away," Owens said."When tragedy struck my life, it wasn’t my grades nor my success that helped me navigate through that loss. When everything else in my life felt uncertain, the only person I could"Even if you accomplish all of your dreams or none of them at all, you are still valuable, and you are still good enough because you are made in the image of God.