The "Queen of All Media" Oprah Winfrey, 61, worked her way up in life from rural Mississippi to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood by creating her own broadcasting network called the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).
Soon, she will be launching her "Belief" television series, which is said to "explore humankind's ongoing search to connect with something greater than ourselves."
For Winfrey herself, that connection is with God. The famed talk show host shared that her Christian upbringing from the Buffalo United Methodist Church in Kosciusko, Mississippi, helped define her path in broadcast media.
"Church was our entertainment and church was our comfort, and church was our sanctuary. And being with church people was how we served our community," Winfrey said. "The hours and hours and hours and hours and hours that I spent in that little white church by the red dirt road in Kosciusko, Mississippi, formed the interior meaning for my life. Actually, as I've often said, it's how my broadcasting career began, speaking in front of the church."
Winfrey is not one to shy away from talking about her faith. In a Facebook video post, she gushed about the love she has for God and how it changed the way she perceives things in life.
"Today, I feel the fierce love of all that is God so deeply, so strongly and so purely in my heart that it lifts and carries me. Sometimes I actually feel weightless in the love that is God, because I feel it in all things," said Winfrey.
"I've reached a point in my life where I actually pay attention to every breath. And my spiritual practice is that I awaken and the first thought is 'thank you' and the next thought is 'I'm still here in this body.' And my heart's desire is to want to live and be in this body fully present to everything, to not miss this experience of being here now on the planet we call Earth," she said.
