Faith. Women. Empowerment.

I’ve learned that seasons in life are built for the unlocking. When we are infants and toddlers life is about exploring, wandering, listening, experiencing the world first hand because it’s all brand new to you.

When we are adolescences it’s about testing those skills to the world that we are now somewhat acquainted with.

As adults, we fail, we learn from that and we begin anew. What I also know is that I am in a season of infancy again, constantly unlocking new parts of myself, exposing ways to see the world, searching for others to look through the lenses of life with.

There are pieces of myself that are bold, fierce, no room for interpretation because they are the engraved parts.

Some are fragile and new, pieces that take consistent work to evolve and flourish into whatever is to become of them— but to break consistency would be to give them up and they are the parts that I have a life’s work of faith in, so I remain steady.

Other pieces I consider dangerously vulnerable and stay deep inside the corners of my heart. The experiences that make up these parts are painful, exhausting and take ongoing prayer for God to
“Make a way” , where there is no way.

And then there are the pieces and places not yet created, or visited.
They are the unknowns, at least to me anyways. Coming from a person who would prefer to have the blueprints to life, this is always difficult to accept.
However— I can tell you that these are the most important pieces, parts where there is still work to be done. I know that there are people who need reaching and they will be found by putting in the work to understand these pieces of ourselves.
I’ve learned to be kind with the unknowns. Pieces I would rather despise for keeping their identity hidden from me.
The most life altering, divine, and magical chapters of my life have a foundation built from the unknowns.

What I am certain of is that God never starts something he doesn’t intend on finishing. You are that something and there are unknowns still waiting to be unlocked.

It will take your patience, your faith, your ability to show up when you want to check out. It’s so much easier to travel in the knowns. It is safer to remain in the already experienced.
This may be true. At least, we are held tight by the walls of comfortable.

But this is far from where the journey gives birth to joy. Where hope is revived and renewed. It is on the outskirts of everything that we know, where faith is tested.
Faith would cease to be faith if everything was certain, decided, given knowledge.

So when you find yourselves in an alleyway between safe + experienced —— and the unknowns + forging— choose to go.
Walk into the unknowns because that is where the best pieces of ourselves will be found, molded, celebrated.
Into the unknowns because friends, life is too precious to stay in what we have already seen.

Keep being brave friends —HHH 🌻🤍