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I remember when people were partying and drinking and stuff like that, I was like, genuinely just didn't feel ready for those type of things. I remember the first time I went to a club, I was like, I'm too young to be here, although I was perfectly legal. And then even besides that, when it just came to, like, other things in life, I just felt like, you know, I was a late bloomer. Or maybe I really just wasn't in a rush. You know, I've been a career creative. You know, I've been doing my thing for 14 years. And then even four years before that, I was actively pursuing it. I just wasn't making any money. And I'm just realizing right now that I can confidently say I've been a creative for 18 years. That's wild. Like, holy. I'm just realizing that right now. Wow, you did that. I'm gonna congratulate myself. And then about year 11 hit. And that's when things blossomed. Oh, my God. It opened up. It didn't just feel like success. It felt like, I'm not gonna lie, I felt like repayment, like the most fruitful harvest after years of drought. You know, I felt like a tab was being settled all at once, too, with interest. And I'm not gonna lie, I truly immersed myself and danced in my delayed gifts. I traveled. I said yes to experiences, people and thangs. You know, I felt like it was all for every year. I said no to the weddings, the barbecues, you know, the club nights, you know, the trips, you know, every experience, I said, I can't. I'm working on my craft. So I enjoyed myself, I ate good, I helped others, and I. You know, I really immersed myself deeply in life. You know, I truly lived. And I realized, like, wow, that delay was divine. You know, some things in life are delayed not because they're being withheld, but because they are being protected. You know, I have a daughter, and a few months ago, she got on Instagram. You know, she's about 17 now. And the truth is, most of her friends have been on Instagram since, like, they were, like, 12 or 13 years old. And she even asked me way back then, and I said no. And I know there was moments she resented it for sure. You know, moments she felt like she was missing out on something, especially since all her friends were on Instagram, but with love. You know, I wanted to protect her. I wanted to keep her in a childlike spirit. Just a few more years of growing up without the noise of the world, torments, without the comparison that starts early and compounds so fast, especially for a young girl turning into a woman, you know, I was protecting her puberty, her sense of self. The delay wasn't punishment. It was out of pure love. And oddly enough, the past year, I felt so many delays in my own life, things that I felt like were supposed to happen or come into fruition just for them to fall apart completely fall apart, too. And it happened so much. Like a bit of my energy was starting to take it personal and harness resentment. I'm like, yo, does life have something against us? Is this, like, punishment for something that I'm not aware of? But when I finally took a moment and I just relaxed and I took a breath, because that's what we have to do sometimes, right? Just take a moment. You deserve it. And I realize, oh, the delay in life right now, my friend, your delay is protection. The delay in your life right now is preparation. And I look back in the past because, you know, the past is proof. You know, many of us look back and focus on our regrets, the things that we didn't do, we wish we would have done instead of Looking back and focusing on the proof, the proof of our abilities, the time we were able to get back up even though we weren't sure if we could. The proof of the protection that we had, the divine interventions. When you look into your past, you will see so much proof of your presence and your purpose. It's so beautiful. And I saw so much proof of the divinity in my own delay. I could see it so clearly. And I realized that timing is a form of intelligence. You see, we want to control time. But no, I do believe in divine timing. And I do believe that things that you maybe wanting in life right now, my friend, the delay is divine. You know, I realized like, what if the Most High held the gate on our breakthrough the same way I held the gate on my daughter's access to Instagram? You know, with foresight, from the ability to see something we couldn't see from the inside that we wasn't ready for, right? Or. Or the world wasn't arranged yet in our favor, or something needed to come into alignment first that hadn't finished moving. You see, there's so many pieces to the puzzle that sometimes the delay in your life, my friend, it is protection. All is working out for you in your favor. The delay is preparation. You know, think about, I've been here before actually. Oof. Think about the experience of falling in love with someone at the wrong time. Many of us have felt that, right? It's like a mind bending, dimension splitting experience where everything about the connection feels so real, you know, it feels incredible. But the timing, the timing feels completely off cosmic Leo. And in those moments, you literally wish you received this person at like another time in the distance. I've been there before. It was about eight years ago. I was like, damn, I wish this was at a different time. Like our time is not a lion, but the chemistry is. The chemistry was just right. And in those moments, sometimes you actually then you wish there was a delay, right? So this is proof that we understand timing, don't we? But we often forget that when we are constantly yearning and focusing on what we don't have, trying to fill the void as quickly as possible with the things that we desire, not realizing that the delay is divine. Sometimes the delay is mercy. You know, a door being held shut so we don't walk down a path that would have cost us more than we even know. Sometimes doors are shut on you through protection. It's not even rejection, it's just protection. I remember a time, I was like 20 years old, I had like a. A little bit of an opportunity, but it wasn't a good opportunity. And the door shut on me right at the last minute. To be honest, it was. It was something dumb I was going to do, but I wanted to do it for what it, what it gave me in the short term. And the door was closed. And about a couple months down the road, the proof of that closed door became so loud and I was like, wow. Something just protected me from making a massive mistake. The delay in our life can be love, my friend. The delay in your life is often a gentle touch. And understand, it's nurturing you, it's intentional, but it's hard. It's hard to experience a delay. The actual daily embodied experience of being inside a delay you don't understand yet. Yeah, it's. It's unbearable. It's unbearable. When we want something right now, sometimes we think we want the thing, but what we really want is relief. Relief from uncertainty, relief from comparison. Relief from feeling like we are behind. And because of that, we start to rush life. We don't even want the manifestation anymore. We want the anxiety to stop. I get it, you understand. And then we find ourselves gripping harder, we obsess harder, we check harder, you know, refreshing emails, watching numbers, looking for signs and everything. Trying to force clarity out of the future. But I truly believe like some of the most beautiful things in life just cannot be forced open. You cannot force a flower to bloom by pulling its petals apart. You only damage it. And I think many of us have unknowingly damaged seasons of our lives by trying to rush what actually needed a little bit more room. It's like a relationship. If you rush a relationship often you'll ruin it. But if you took your time and nurtured it, you'd have a beautiful foundation to withstand all the storms to come. The truth is, when we are rushing deep down, we are afraid. Afraid that if it doesn't happen or doesn't happen soon, it wouldn't happen at all. But if. If life has shown me anything, it has shown me and given me proof over the years that what is truly meant for you. Arise and divine timing, my friend. And often if we have received some of those blessings too early, yeah, we would have mishandled them. Not because we aren't deserving, but simply. We just weren't ready in spirit yet. We haven't developed the nervous system for it yet, the discernment for it, the gratitude for it. Some blessings arrive late because your soul needed time to become someone who could hold them without self destruction. That's why Delay can feel painful and loving at the same time. It's a. It's strangely beautiful because a part of you is being denied while another part of you is being developed. Let me say that again. A part of you is being denied, experiencing a delay, but at the same time, another part of you is actually being developed in that delay. The delay is not something we can hustle our way out of, my friend. It is not a problem to be solved, but more effort, more vision boards, more discipline. Not all the time, no. The delay is doing something for you, through you, in you, behind the scenes, in the architecture of our whole being, something is being worked out that needs time, my friend. Think about what's happening underneath the soil in the winter time. You know, I love y' all know me. I love nature metaphors. But nothing is visible, nothing you can point to. The ground is doing something, though. It's breaking down, it's softening, it's preparing. And if you pull the weeds up too soon to check on them, you just killed the very thing you were waiting for. Sometimes the delay in our life is working the same way. We just can't see to work. The delay is simply a part of your story. And the delay will ask us to resist many negative beliefs, like the waiting doesn't count or didn't count, right? That those soft or those quiet moments were wasted. That the slower season somehow subtracted from our lives instead of shaping them. That the slower season somehow subtracted from our lives instead of shaping them. No, they were shaped. Those years taught us how to listen, how to recover, how to become softer without becoming weaker. How to sit with ourselves without constantly escaping ourselves. My friend, you are not falling behind. You are building a foundation. Because you cannot build a steady life on unstable ground. And the difficult part is the delay asks us to hold two truths at once. Grief and trust. And understand the grief of what this season is costing us right now. And the trust at this cost is not meaningless, that something deeper may still be unfolding beneath what we currently cannot see. We are allowed, though, to feel the ache of waiting while still believing in where life is taking us. That is just a human experience, the full spectrum. And somewhere inside that balance, there is a sweet spot, there is peace. You understand? Imagine how much space we could reclaim in our minds, in our nervous systems, in the quality of our daily lives, if we could actually just remember while we were inside the weight, inside the delay, that the delay in our life right now is divine, is protection, maybe reparation, and not just know it intellectually know but embody it, carry it, breathe into it, breathe through it. And let it change the quality of our patients. We'd have less anxiety about the timeline, huh? Less resentment towards people who seem to be further along than us. And we'd be less frantic about our energy and our manifestations. And we would just understand that everything has a time, everything has a season. And the season that we are in, even the still ones, even the confusing ones, they are not mistakes. They are a part of our story. The delay is not an absence of a plan. The delay is a part of the plan. You understand? The delay is always a part of your plan, you understand? Some things in life are delayed out of love. That's why we need to truly embody that some things in life are delayed out of love. The question is whether we can trust a love we can't fully see yet, my friend, the invitation isn't to stop wanting or to stop working, or to stop pursuing. The invitation is to loosen our grip on the timeline just enough to let the divine delay do its work. To ask ourselves honestly, what would change about how we move through today if we generally believe that this delay was divine and we trusted in the vision, the promise, the plan, the uncertainty, even when the destination is far beyond the horizon. And we are still in the depths of that delay. But we could still trust that it's well worth it. The delay is so divine, my friend. And you done on hindsight Every ting gonna be more than alright.
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