Unapologetically, I Am
Hello friend,
A couple years ago I had an encounter with the Creator that changed me forever. Everything I experienced blew the message of salvation I grew up with into a million pieces and for the following months I didn’t have words to describe what happened. Not even to my husband and for a year I processed it alone. I needed time to turn my world right side up.
For the first time in my life I knew what wholeness was and that I was enough.
In the beginning of 2021, I turned off media and I buried myself in our gardens and home experience savoring the star lit nights, bare feet in the grass, and foraging botanicals and ferns in the woods and life became a worship and holy experience. One day as I stood in the woods, hands in the sky taking in all of creations beauty I could hear nature speak and I as I listened, I could hear God teaching me about his creation and a language began forming so that I could articulate this shift in beliefs.
Then February sixth, 2022, on a Sunday morning my mom slipped from this realm into the next. I spent the following week in Michigan with my family and in true mom fashion she gifted me something that I would never have imaged. All the work that I’d leaned into for the year leading up to her passing all of a sudden clicked and a I stepped into a boldness that has unleashed an unapologetic version of myself and the need to censor or filter anything of what I believe disappeared into the ethers with mom.
So, thank you mom, for in that last week giving me a gift that forever will mark my story as the week that I came into my own. An uncensored, shameless, fearless woman in my God-identity.
Mom, this is for you; thank you for being someone who made it easy to be curious, question things and helped guide me to becoming who I was designed to be.
Love always,
Your daughter Lorene
