Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor

I was reminded by a dear friend the other day that when I thought I dimmed my light, when during the transition year of 2023, the chaos and conflicts, the move from one place to another brought so much bitterness and anger, when I dimmed my energy, when I didn’t even acknowledge that I was light until last month as the year 2024 ended, I wasn’t hiding it, I was merely protecting it. This is the truth I never knew I needed to hear as we start this new year. Keep, keep protecting your light which can never ever be hidden. 

I sent my first grant off to be edited yesterday. Granted it was 6 pages and it was written in about 2 days but the ideas were percolating before the holiday and I told my team, it would be ready. It was. I met up with a dear friend, my first meeting of the year and I shared about how this gift comes so easily that I feel stumped these days as to what else to do. I also shared this was coming after close to 2 years of loss and pain where I felt ashamed to share the gift partly because who am I to even have it. Then she reminded me about how it’s God. When he calls you, every single thing that comes easy makes sense. Recall he said ask and you receive, seek and you find. That and when you are light, all things are attracted to you, even those moments you thought were despair. It was darkness sharpening my light so we shine brighter than ever. In all, we are rising from burnt ashes, rising so his glory and name shall be praised. The pathway still remains hazy but I don’t intend to hide my light, hence why I am keep this here as a reminder to protect it instead. what may take others so long to do, he continues to perfect it in me that I say have your way. Use me Lord. Use me.