Life Been Life-ing

I initially started the brand Finding My Joi as a podcast (which is still available on most platforms). But now I’m picking it back up in a different way, by blogging. It’s a lot easier for me to write out my thoughts, and pour out my heart journaling opposed to speaking. So that’s what I intend to do here.

Finding My Joi was started so that I can share my life experiences with the hope that I will impart wisdom or knowledge that I have already struggled to learn with others. So that they will see they are not alone and possibly get help from my experience as they battle through their own experiences.

Now that I got all that out, let’s get caught up.

I had a myomectomy to remove a large fibroid weighing 5 pounds 18 cm. This was the first and only surgery I’ve ever had so it was a big deal to me. I’m still in the military, recently deployed (coming back from deployment was rocky as hell). I had a great boyfriend, then somehow didn’t have one anymore. Had many challenges with my body, my confidence, and my identity. ALL my relationships (friends, fam, etc.) have been tested yet strengthened. I moved to San Diego for a few years, and just moved back to NC with family. (I hope to be bicoastal one day, because I did not want to leave sunny San Diego). I still love GOD and feel even more connected to Him than I ever have. I definitely talk to Him more and trust in Him more.

Alright, so now that we are all caught up, I just need to say that “life has really been life-ing”. All this recent transitioning has been overly stressful and it definitely didn’t happen on my time. It was truly God’s timing when I started to see things shifting. Although I knew from the beginning that He would work it all out, it did not make things go smoother, definitely not faster, and it didn’t make the hurt, not hurt, ya know.

But here I am, surviving through it…grateful to have made it through. Not that I have reached any level of accomplishment at this time, I am just grateful to see His FRUIT beginning to grow. What has helped me though was the constant clinging to God to build me up and push me, as well as support/encouragement of friends and family. As I mentioned, I’m still IN IT, this wilderness of sorts, but I know without a doubt that I am truly on HIS PATH. And with that I rest easy.

Life may be life-ing, but God is always God-ing, ya know. So get on out there and go FIND YOUR JOI!