No editing necessary…it was a great trip!
November 8, 2024
Feeling like myself again
Woke up this morning bags packed and excited about the journey ahead. Today is my birthday! Once again, choosing me. Traveling out of the country with a trusted friend who covers and prays for me, and YES celebrates with me too!
Not sure why knowing my itinerary has been hard, I keep asking myself how many nights and how many days…4 nights and 5 days.
I started packing my bags several days ago, but somehow last night I switched bags which sent me off to…you guessed it, overpacking. I imagined that by day I would be in my swimwear and by night…something easy and light…a little…well maybe not so little dress; short but not the size I thought I would be by my birthday. Guess what it is okay because every day is another day for me to move forward; so even though I didn’t lose the 5 pounds that I thought, I am still moving my body every day. It’s my food choices; food has me in a chokehold (SMH).
It's day one of the trip. What birthday girl doesn’t upgrade her seat to business class? This girl had nothing to think about. Treating myself is something that I have not done much of in the past, but it's a new season, a new day, and I hear my children saying, “Well done, Mama, go live and enjoy yourself.” In fact, my youngest texted me this morning and gave me his blessings to go and live!
Making room for the new season of my 50’s; what an exciting time. What will be different? Over the last 36 days, I have been preparing for 2025 by leaning into my health, finances, and relationships. I recently went on a retreat and before going I put a demand on God; is that even possible? I did; HE is my father. He created me. He knows me, so yeah I said “Dad I am going on this retreat and I am expecting a defining moment that will result in a quantum leap”. And I had that moment…
I stood in the room…a room full of women I had never met and yet felt so safe to open up; I knew it was time to come clean. Faith without works is dead; it was time for me to do my part and trust God to do the rest, that meant standing in my truth in a room full of women, possibly one that needed to hear my story.
The defining moment was primed for happening; here we go. I was asked to make a decision and then to envision myself 10 years from now, and I could ask my older self one question. Who knew that my current decision would be connected to the question I would ask…what did you give up to be where you are now? And from that moment, life has propelled for me.
Would you like to know what has happened since that day?
Stay tuned…
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