20/11/2025
Dear Shane,
Welcome to year thirty eight. We do this every year during Scorpio season - reflection sets up intention, and intention becomes direction. When I look over the previous journals from each birthday, there are so many changes - not just in the physical realm (friends who come and go, jobs, homes etc), but even in the spiritual world my philosophy and views are constantly changing and evolving. What stuck out to me this year is one thing and one thing only: God.
I am so blessed with my life. Does that mean everything goes right? Does that mean I always get what I want? Does that mean that life is easy? No way.
But it means that each year, the closer I get to Him and the deeper my relationship gets with Him, the less I need.
To quote Galatians 5:16: if you walk with the spirit, you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to spirit, and the spirit to the flesh.
Ive realised that my birthday isn’t just on the 20th November. “Give us the day our daily bread”. Every day, I get to wake up and be born again. Every day I get to receive Christ, every day I wake up I get to experience God - through people, through nature, through my experiences and most importantly, through the way I speak, see, think and feel.
God blessed me with charisma, charm, personality, emotional-intelligence and connection. I never understood why or how to use it, and a lot of time I’d use it for “the flesh” - my own benefit and worldly satisfaction. Even this little guy in the photo used to want to be the centre of attention and just desired to be ‘wanted and loved’ by everyone. He had a desire to use his personality to receive love and validation from all people and it stuck with him for a long time, decades even. But now, I’d rather be loved by one, than be loved by many ✝️
In this next chapter of my life, I want to be known as someone who knows God and loved him with all his heart - and displayed that love to everyone he met and everything he touched 🙏🏾
Everything you could possibly love about me, is because of my love for Him.
Love Shane
