13/02/2026
As I sit here watching the waves and starting Bear Grylls’ autobiography, loving this moment and also excited by the home and work and people I’ll be returning to, I find myself reflecting on blessing and effort.
Back when I couldn’t even afford to eat, I never sought materialistic blessing. In fact, I consciously didn’t want it, it felt wrong to me.
But I DID want freedom! Freedom from depression, from trauma, from shame, from addiction and being my own worst enemy.
Now I have that freedom, and it turns out the things I had to learn and apply in order to get that freedom, also opened me up to receiving blessings from God that I didn’t even ask for.
There are times and seasons for different kinds of blessing, but so often we’re missing out not because it’s not that season, but because we’re in our own way.
The effort and process to true freedom happens to also be a door-opener to blessing 🙏