Walking with God is like an oxymoron because it’s necessary for a better quality of life, but the walk isn’t always a smooth journey. Even being raised in church all of my life I wasn’t sure of God’s authenticity. Until I experienced an evolution where my life went through these quiet shifts which resulted into the shattering of old perspectives quickly replaced with new ones. Evolution is where I found peace, but I hadn’t quite gained the understanding of how to protect it.
The peace I’d gained from evolving made me hungry for a relationship with Him. So I started one, just like I would with anyone I wanted to be intimate with – learning and communication. I knew this relationship would eventually be helpful to my life but to what degree.
The relationship taught me surrender and how to trust Him. It’s not easy giving up what you have in mind and I still struggle, but I would rather struggle trying than to let my ego and pride sabotage my progress. My drive to be intentional sometimes is the only thing that propels me to keep practicing.
Being intentional taught me that God always has an agenda that’s working behind the scenes of our situations. Even when life feels uncomfortable there’s something to be learned from what you went through. However, I still need to know that the lesson will be mine to learn regardless if things went my way or not.
I didn’t know that getting to know God would bring me here. I still don’t know what I don’t know, but I knew I didn’t want to continue a relationship with baggage. I had to start the process of forgiveness by forgiving others for what they did to me and forgiving myself for feeling like I had to carry those feelings with me everyday. Letting go is liberating, but continuing to let go will take work.
Rectifying my past was exhausting — dealing with the feelings and emotions was a lot, but it was worth it and needed to happen. It led me to learning how to hydrate — to restore myself and to accept restoration. I have to be consistent with hydrating my mind, my body and my soul.
How do I maintain this?
It’s practicing what I’ve learned.
It’s protecting my peace.
It’s staying honest with myself.
It’s letting God meet me where I actually am, not where I pretend to be.
This is the part of the journey I’m stepping into now — the day‑to‑day walk. The real life part. The part where faith becomes lived, not just believed. The part where I learn how to maintain what I’ve gained, nurture what’s growing, and stay grounded even when life shifts again.
This is God + Real Life.
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