Sept 3, 2025: unpacking and reorganizing

Happy HumpDay crusaders! 🌻💖

Yesterday’s post really had me doing some heavy self-reflecting. I can’t stress the importance and significance of having a community that sees you, listens to you, and shows you grace. Without my brothers and sisters in Christ, I’d be walking this path blindly and confusingly. I had one of my best friends tell me semi-recently that I’m a “vocal processor”. That would make a lot of sense as this exists.

Let me speak metaphorically. Let’s say we’re all back at school (the school of life that is!) and we all have a bookbag. We carry books of love and knowledge. We put the art work we made in class inside. We put the notes from your friends you’d pass in class. You go through life putting through so much in your bookbag. Some of those things, you grow out of. You grow up not needing (or even wanting) certain things in your bookbag.

My bookbag was one I got when I moved to Florida. I carried the time I spent with my father. The relationships I formed, destroyed, and neglected. I hold the guilt I have with losing what I called my “big girl job”. I hold the disappointment in myself for not asking for help when I needed it. I hold the relationships my daughter and I have formed together in a sacred, special pocket. There’s a lot of other things I don’t care to ever mention. Let’s just say, after my conversation last night with a certain brother and sister in Christ (love you 5ever A&J!), it’s okay to “go through the feels” just to go through the feels. There IS a better tomorrow. There ARE opportunities to grow, be better, and do better. There IS grace to give even when you feel like you’ve reached your limit.

Until tomorrow, I’ll leave here with today’s Bible verse:

“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other s that you may be helaed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.”

James 5:16

Three things that make me happy:

being back in ATL for what I call “concert season”, framed pictures, dancing in the rain

Celebrate what makes you happy always,

Jenna/Starshine ✨