How Losing My Curls Became the Most Beautiful Spiritual Awakening
Hair falls from my head like leaves fall off trees and petals fall off flowers. Shedding—letting go—one of the most natural parts of nature.
Hair falls from my head like leaves fall off trees and petals fall off flowers. Shedding—letting go—one of the most natural parts of nature.
But perhaps that’s mothering, too. Saying what needs to be said and not being able to say everything, too. As the space of listening closes and grows smaller, our hearts grow bigger, our yearning grows deeper, and our love grows fonder.
Thank You God that You meet us, making our drop of work an ocean of outcome because I know you are a God of multiplication and not addition.
I took much needed time to think and feel in my body (that God speaking to me feeling, the spiritual nudges, you know the one, yes?) and pray and meditate on my next career steps.
Because here’s the real victory: not that I’ve kept the weight off. The real success is that I got aligned in spirit, in mind, and in body.
Remember the One and you will always have more than you need. Remember the One and your needs will continue to be met.
The love I exude for Black people—PGM!—can be felt by everyone. It’s not selective, because love—true, divine, holy love!—knows no bounds. My love is God’s love.
Rest so deep and full that only God can meet me there. No—that only God does meet me there.
However you define silence or stillness for yourself, I hope you come to know it, understand it, and above all, practice being it: Stop fighting. Calm down. Be quiet. Be calm. See. Understand. Desist.
To overcome addiction is to slow down enough to notice: Why am I reaching for this? What am I trying not to feel?