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  • Reason Enough to Stay

    Reason Enough to Stay

    He’s with me. When life is well — He’s there. When life is throwing one thing after another at me — He’s still there. Some days I want to let go. I want to quit. It would be so easy to say I’m done. But then I think about how far I’ve come, and that…

  • The Things That Led Me To Now

    The Things That Led Me To Now

    I was sick of my shit – that’s how all of this started. I implemented God in my life and started to evolve in ways that changed my perspectives. I lost a lot of people that were in my life that I later learned weren’t losses at all but they were pruned so other people…

  • Rising

    Rising

    Until I started this journey with God I didn’t really see the good in the things that I’d survived. I went through things (i.e. heartbreak, childhood drama, betrayal, etc.) that affected me for a while. Made decisions that had a direct effect on my life and the choices I made. I put up major walls,…

  • The Hangover

    The Hangover

    Working faith into my life has been liberating. It stretched me in places that made the process feel hard at first, but ended up being very good for me. Looking back over this God journey a lot of things have happened that I wouldn’t say were ideal by Joi’s standards. I mean who picks learning…

  • Surrender Made Faith Present

    Surrender Made Faith Present

    What a journey. Closer to the beginning of this theme I vented about how it seemed like since I said yes to surrendering life has given me it’s best. One conflict after another stemming from everywhere possible, home, work, even within myself. But going through all of this has taught me how to surrender everything…

  • Who’s Still Standing

    Who’s Still Standing

    If I’ve learned nothing from implementing surrender in my life it’s that it’s not for the weak. If you’ve been traveling this journey of surrender with me I want to say… You’re not alone. Be proud of yourself for showing up. And congratulations for making it this far without giving up. Where are you in…