Ready to fly.

Hi guys. Michele Goane has been trying to encourage me to say things to put on a blog for quite some time. To be honest with you I'm not quite sure what a blog even is.

 What I have decided to do is to bring my most authentic self to this project. What that will look or should I say- sound like-  will be probably pretty interesting to try to follow. 

It will be somewhat like a maze. I'm not sure what in's and outs-  or zigzags- it will take. However, I will promise to do this. It will always start at my heart and I hope-  end at yours.

Come and take a trip inside my thoughts. 

Just recently, I had to see a friend leave the nest and fly away. In short, it was someone who I had an encounter with about a year and a half ago. It took him nearly a year to come and stay in our sober living house with us. Until that point, he chose to remain on the streets. And I do use the word chose, because he was clear with me that he made a conscious choice to be where he was. 

He stayed with us for about seven or eight months, I guess, and now is off in pursuit of something he has wanted to do for quite some time.  Some would question his choice. Just like many questioned his choice not to take help sooner. What he is doing is not the point.

There are so many that would tell you he was given so much by being with us. 

I've come to know better. In the process of the relationship I had with my friend, many things came to my attention. One of which is that if I truly want to learn to love like Jesus, then I have to truly allow the person that God created in His own image to be exactly who they were intended to be. 

I guess in some respects it would be thought of as sovereignty. I believe it's a gift that God gives to all of us, the independence to be exactly who we are. I feel through lived experience that true transformation is greatly the work of the Holy Spirit. I watch this take place, not so much in my friend, but in myself as Holy Spirit gently walked me through this process.

I am so grateful for the season that my friend and I shared. My friend gave me such a great gift. He helps teach me how to experience the love of God by becoming the very thing I'm trying to experience.

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