Phoenix: Live Love Laugh

If I’ve learned anything over the past five years, it’s this:
I can depend on God.

No matter what life has taken from me—my health, my peace, even people—I have never lost my faith.
Yes, I’ve questioned things.
Yes, I’ve wrestled with pain.
But I’ve also waited, trusted, and listened for answers.

And in that waiting, I’ve seen God do it all:

• Hold me up
• Sit me down
• Push me forward
• Pull me back
• Turn me around
• Keep me in line
• Move me along
• Teach me what I need to know
• And lovingly remind me of what I already knew

These are not just poetic words—they are lived truths.
As Iyanla Vanzant once said:

“God will hold you up, sit you down, push you forward, pull you back…”
And every line of that quote has echoed through my life in the most powerful ways.

Letting Go Isn’t Giving Up

One of the hardest things I’ve had to do lately?
Pressing the delete button.

Deleting names.
Deleting numbers.
Deleting social media connections.
Not out of bitterness, but because I realized that peace sometimes begins with release.
And I can’t fully walk into the next if I’m still chained to the past.

Sometimes, people enter your life not to stay, but to prepare you for who—or what—is still to come.
It took me time to accept that.
But once I did, everything shifted.

Tonight, I Just Wanted to Share This

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re longing for joy, peace, hope, and real love…
Have a little faith.
Let go of what was.
Make space for what will be.

God is faithful.
Even when we feel undone.
Even when we don’t understand.

So tonight, I remind you (and myself):
Sometimes the hardest release leads to the deepest peace.