Week 22: Sunday Service Announcements

I won't be before you long this week, this is for those navigating grief.

Whether you are expecting it or not, death is never an easy experience to navigate when it visits. How life flows in harmony with comfort and discomfort feels like the cycle of surrender.

Today, I surrender to death and reincarnation.

Death reveals so much to us. Our love for others, willingness to forgive, and how we view others and honor their life show us the ugly truth about our blood family.

In a time of grief, it was my soul family that held space and compassion for me as the grief grew past the loss of my father to the loss of that family. My definition of family has been redefined after being shown who makes up my soul family.

The desire to live out a legacy makes sense now.

It’s not my bloodline’s legacy, but I'm creating it to live out. I'm cultivating the legacy of the Verbal last name, reincarnated with the same name as my father's mother. I am the reason my ancestors sent me.

And I am their wildest dreams.

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Prayer Hotline

I pray you find life today.

I pray you value yours.

I pray you preserve the stories of your bloodline and rewrite them with your pen.

I pray you define your family, whether it be blood or soul.

I pray you experience more peace and less pain.

I pray when you do experience pain, you feel your ancestors lifting you.

I pray you pick your head up even if you had to let it hang low first.

I pray you wake up to the power of your pen.

I pray you see your life as a purpose.

I pray you desire to live your life with purpose.

I pray you feel the love of your parents dead or alive.

I pray you stand up for what is right, even if they take it wrong.

I pray you love a little more today and a little bit more tomorrow.

I pray you break free and live life in the most fulfilling way to you.

I pray you understand this week’s Sunday Service Announcements was how I am finding my way back to reality after getting the news about my father only 30 minutes after publishing my last newsletter on Tuesday.

I pray you understand this community is my soul family, and I thank you for being a support system for me while navigating the unexpected death of my father.

I pray you understand the words shared are enough because this is all I have to give, but I couldn’t let Sunday go on without showing up.

I pray you find passion in your pen so deep that you, too, will never let anything come between you and your legacy.

I pray for compassion and love to fill the hearts of anyone suffering from the loss of a loved one right now because this pain runs deep.

I pray you believe that I love you.

Amen.