” In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Hello and I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving!! 

This is my first post since the passing of my mother who passed away 6 months ago, May 29th, 2025. Thanksgiving was filled with joy being around family but without my mom here it left a void. It is the strangest thing to live life without your parents.

My stepdad passed away 4 years ago on Oct 29th, 2021, and I miss them so much!!! My biological father passed away 9 years ago but he had been out of my life since I was about 2 years old.

If there was one thing my mom was right about and she was right about most things ha-ha, it was how much it hurts to lose your parents and how much you will miss them when their presence leaves this earth!!

My mom’s Christian influence in my life prepared me for her death. I would be spiraling right now if I didn’t have God to strengthen me!! God makes all the difference, and I honestly don’t know how people can get by in life without him!!

My mom taught me true sabbath rest which is trusting in God’s grace through faith and this inner shalom that I have -peace and wholeness in Christ despite her being gone is what has pulled me through!! She taught me God inhabits the praises of his people and that praise is one of the most powerful spiritual weapons that we have! It reminds us of God’s faithfulness, and it lifts our mood, opens our spiritual eye of faith, and since it disgusts Satan, he is forced to flee from us! The refreshing presence of the Lord is my peace! This is the inheritance my mom left me with, which is a strong faith in God, hope in him alone, a firm foundation, the same God who was my mom’s hope and surety.

The same God who faithfully sustained my mom her whole life. The same God who was with us as my mom passed away with me holding her in my arms. The same God who strengthened me the whole-time taking care of her 24/7 around the clock when she came to my house on hospice as she was dying and the night before she died as I wrestled with God him like Jacob and spent all night in prayer and praise pleading God to strengthen me and demanding Satan flee from my mom if he was giving her any doubt or fears. The same God who’s been with us this whole time. The same God who promises me he will never leave or forsake me, which is what my mom taught me as a little child!! I miss her so much!! I know I will see her again. Till we meet again mom, I love and miss you so much and thank you for everything you taught me, the most important thing of all – faith and hope in a risen savior!! Lord, thank you for this and thank you for letting my mom no longer be in anymore pain or suffering, she’s at complete rest and peace now!!

In the coming posts I want to honor my mom and the spiritual impact she left on my life.

She prayed for her children’s and grandchildren’s anointing and that we would become complete and whole in Christ and that our spiritual eye would be opened to see the glory of the gospel of Christ Jesus.

Anointing is when you see that Christ is the anointed one and he alone deserves access to the throne of your heart. The title Christ means anointed one and seeing his glory brings about radical transformation in your heart and life (the external always reveals the internal which is why Jesus said clean the inside then the outside would be clean) to where you dethrone the world and throne Christ on your heart as your spiritual affection. I used to be very legalistic, and I believe legalism comes from trying to earn salvation, to raise your self-esteem and worth when you don’t understand your value and worth in God.

Legalism is ultimately self-serving and is spiritual bypassing choosing legality over relationship with Christ which is what I preferred until the veil of sin and my self-serving bias was removed the moment, I saw the glory of Christ Jesus who reveals the father’s heart to us.

My mom would pray fervently that the Holy Spirit would open my spiritual perception to see the glory of the gospel of Christ Jesus, and her prayers didn’t fail for the veil has been removed from my eyes!!

“I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.” Ephesians 1:18