Peace & Blessings Sisters,
I'm on Day 7 of my 40-day Spiritual Journey. The past seven days have been ... interesting. Each day has brought about its own revelations.

I started this journey with the hopes of fasting. My weak spiritual body didn't make it one day with that High Hope. I also set out to pray a certain number of times each day. Again, being so far from where I hope to be, my ideals are far from my grasp.

Day One, I got so discouraged that I couldn't make the fast that I enjoyed far too much wine. The other days, I ate fried chicken wings like it was my last meal. If someone from Bojangles or the other spots left out my requested hot sauce .... uhmn, it could've gotten ugly.

I didn't and never want to make a mockery of fasting. I need God to work a miracle in my life so that I can breathe again, smile again, laugh again. How ugly is it when you're blessed with all of life's riches and you're still not happy. I am in need of nothing and I know that there are others who would easily trade shoes with me. But, I'm not happy. Am I mocking God? I do not intend to. It's just that somethings missing. I want to BE DELIVERED.

Yet, each day, I feel closer, I feel stronger.

I was reading Malinda William's wedding blog on Essence.com and something she wrote was so in line with my Spirit. She wrote something to the effect of, instead of praying, I decided to be quite and just listen, because after all, there was nothing I was thinking that God didn't already know. I was so inspired. I am so inspired. I'm listening right now.

Something really upset me at work today, and I just stepped back. I realize that, as "The Course In Miracles" teaches, this is just a body with an ego. Whatever upset me, upset the little me. But, the Big Me, The Self, was watching the little me, and knew that it didn't make any difference.

Maybe before ... but now I choose to walk in my Heritage, in my blessedness.

No matter what I thought this journey would be, or would bring, I am intrigued each day to see that the Most High meets me where I am. I am becoming aware that the things before my eyes are not really real but just presented to me for my reaction, for my growth. And, I control me! I control what I say, what I think, what I do...

More than anything, these seven days have taught me, sisters, that it's going to be alright. In all that I have been taught, it is that He didn't bring me this far to leave me!!!

Angels are everywhere, ancestor's spirits are everywhere, positive energy is negative energy turned upside down.

In spite of what you may be facing today ... may peace and blessings go with you and before you and follow you. And, may all things be a light unto your path.

Be Delivered!