✨ Reflection

There is something about Resurrection

that does not ask for permission

It just is

And this year

I did not just acknowledge it

I sat with it

Because as I released my second book

on Resurrection Sunday

I could not ignore it

Christ rose

and I can see where I’ve risen too

Not all at once

Not finished

Not complete

But I am not where I used to be

There are parts of me

that no longer think the same

no longer respond the same

no longer carry what I used to carry

And there are still layers

More to go

More to uncover

And I am no longer fighting that

I understand now

This does not end

This is a continual process

for as long as I am here

There is no quick fix to life

I have accepted that

Because what I also understand is this

If I am following Jesus

If I am walking as an ambassador

I will be tried

The trials

The tests

they are not here to take me out

They are here to make me strong

To increase my faith

To build me in God

And just like He conquered it all

I can too

Not in my own strength

But because He already showed me

what victory looks like

And because of that

I no longer look at what I go through

the same way

I carry it differently now

I am alive

in more ways than one

— LeYonce

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