The Sound of Revival: Life is For...Giving

This is a Momentary Thought from a Satiated Mind—a space where I spill what the Spirit

stirs. Where divine whispers echo through voice notes and early morning commutes.

Where prayer calls turn into sermons, and where healing is less of a destination and more

like a friend who stops by unannounced—usually when I’m in sweats and emotionally

unavailable. 😜

This week’s thought came after almost giving up on writing one for this week…it

literally came to me in the last minute! It was evoked by my sister-in-law’s voice-note

which made me suddenly remember a conversation I had earlier this year with a

friend when I said these words to her during that conversation…Life is FOR GIVING.

Yes. For...giving!  I don’t even remember what prompted this phrase at first. Maybe it was my heart-work assignments from Ministry School. Maybe a leftover note from a prayer call. Maybe the Holy Spirit slid it under my door like a divine sticky note. Regardless, it landed, and it landed hard. Life isn’t about us!

It’s about giving! And giving again…and again…and again! And then…forGIVING.

Let me tell you where this momentary thought really began to crack open: I began to relisten to the voice-note mentioned above—and from it, I could sense and feel that my sister-in-law had, had one of those deeply reflective moments. She read out loud the Catholic reading for the day and then spoke about an experience she was in, something that was rubbing up against her soul the wrong way (we’ve all been there). And then, I decided to leave her a reply, and I found myself casually quoting from the scriptures she just had read, written by Paul and Matthew like we were all sipping tea together. "Pray for those who persecute you," she had said, echoing Scripture.

And I thought: Ohhh, there you go again. Paul and Matthew always getting me hype on spiritual trouble and going off on another tangent.😅 So, what is forgiveness, really? And why does Jesus (via Matthew), and Paul (with all his long-winded epistles), keep circling back to this and even ask us to pray for those who persecute us? I’ll offer my answer not from a theology degree (which I don't have)􋓼􋔁􋓾􋓿􋔂􋔃, but from the cracked places of my own life—specifically, from the ache of my divorce that happened over 12 years ago! That pain? Let me tell you. 😅 😎

It wasn’t just a broken heart—it was the breaking of who I thought I was. The part I rarely say out loud is that it took me years—and I mean years—to forgive myself. Notice, I said forgive myself!!! And longer still to truly forgive my ex-husband from deep within me. But here’s where the revival began…

I was driving to work and as I often do I listen to the likes of Abraham aka Esther Hicks

for those who are in the know, and she said something about Soulmates, and instantaneously I had this quiet epiphany:

Soulmates aren’t just our lovers.

They’re mirrors!

They’re midwives of/for our transformation!

They come to show us ourselves, not to save us from ourselves.

And in that moment, something inside me softened. All the fighting I had done—for love, for clarity, for the narrative to make sense—suddenly felt…hollow. I finally understood that God, is the very Lover I had longed for in every relationship. And get this, GOD had been there all along!!

Healing Revelation:

A wise teacher of mine, once said: “Every chance you get… go for the healing.”

So here I am. In yet another season of REVIVAL, RESTORATION, RENEWAL, RESET, and RECREATION choosing to do just that!

To CONTINUE to go for the healing.

To CONTINUE to go for the giving.

And today, that giving looks like forGIVING.

In this moment—of a “Momentary Thought from a Satiated Mind”💕I offer this from My Spirit to Yours—Three Gentle Truths:

1. Forgive yourself for struggling to accept people as they are. (Yes, even your coworker who chews too loudly and your cousin who posts shady memes.)

2. Be open to the idea that maybe—just maybe—you can see your pain, your past,

   and even your persecutors through new eyes.

3. If life is truly FOR GIVING, then even when you feel empty-handed—no money,

   no prayers, no emotional bandwidth—lost—confused—persecuted —you can still

   offer forgiveness. And sometimes, that’s the holiest gift of all.

   Because life is for GIVING!

💭Now, I invite you to reflect…

• What is rising in you today that longs to be forgiven—by you?

•  Who have you been keeping hostage in the prison of your mind?

•  Can you pray for the capacity to receive God's forgiveness for yourself?

🙏🏾 I offer this ACTS Prayer (For the Givers and the Forgivers):

Adoration

Precious Lord of the Universe, You know me deeply—my faults, my faith, my fierce

att􀄴empts at control. I adore You for knowing me and loving me anyway.

Confession

There are days, Lord, where I’m stingy with grace—especially to myself. I confess the

times I’ve withheld the very mercy You lavish on me daily.

Thanksgiving

Thank You for your relentless kindness. For the mercy that outruns my mistakes.

Thank You for whispering, even now, that life is for giving.

Supplication

God, help me.

Help me to remember who You are and who You’ve called me to be.

Help me to forgive quickly, love deeply, and judge slowly.

Help me to see myself and others as You see us: whole, becoming, divine.

I ask, I allow, I let it be so, And So It Is.

Amen.

Finally, in this Momentary Thought from a Satiated Mind, I invite you to pause. To soften.

To breathe in forgiveness for yourself—and breathe it back out for someone else.

May you give. May you forgive.

Because life, dear reader, is always and forever…FOR GIVING!!

Food for the Soul:

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

—Lewis B. Smedes

It reminds us that forgiveness is less about the other person and more about the

liberation of our own spirit. It's a return to peace, a reclaiming of joy, and an act of

radical love toward ourselves.