I don’t know what God is doing but I am not very fond of His method in this regard. This year I fought so many men, and I not referring to cute little fights where a man takes a joke too far, No…I am talking an exchange of words, at one point a white man threatened to use a knife on my wheels because I took his parking space at the mall, he claimed he saw it first but I happened to be faster, I was calm about the situation until he threatened me, boy did I give him a show, I am particularly proud of my performance on this one but I wish it never had to go that far.
When I moved to this city, I was young, alone and mostly… I was scared. The fear created an army within me, all the women inside me were alert, they trusted no one, they were on survival mode and that built up and grew through the years so much that I became a very protective adult, no one was allowed in my space and I loved it that way, it was less stressful yet very toxic but I was okay with it, I never wanted to need someone, I never wanted to lean on someone.
This year I wanted to change that, I wanted to be softer, I wanted to feel feelings I have always ran away from, be feminine for a change and I had a strategy, a very simple strategy and that was “Stop fighting, stop fighting feelings, stop fighting change, stop fighting” oooh but God had his own strategy. Just when I chose peace, just when I was ready to be a calm woman then some guy would just pop up from no where and become disrespectful and now I have to fight, at first it didn’t bother me but now it does and I hope I wont have to be in a position of fighting anymore.
At one point I was mad at God, for a whole week I was throwing temper tantrums because I just didnt understand, am I being disrespected because I am mostly alone? and if that’s so then how do I change it this situation?
And this is how I tried to play God and change my situation, the plan is to have someone around who will make me feel safe, since now all of a sudden I was going head to toe with guys, all of a sudden my independence is taken for weakness.. I needed to solve this problem, and solve it quick.
Plan A: Was to make friends, male friends to be more specific and that was very easy, I learned that the male species loves it when a woman is stranded, you need to make him feel like you need him and there I was acting like a damsel in distress, an act I couldn’t maintain for long simply because these male friends were becoming entitled and in a bad way, suddenly I am right in the middle of a battlefield, everyone of my male friends feels that the other is an intruder, this was not working.
Plan B: Go on dates, attend events, go out on solo dates more, take a walk and join the youth at church. as an introvert this was a huge challenge, just walking into a new place sent my anxiety to a frenzy, the discomfort at the beginning was enough to accept failure but I carried on and made friends, both Female and Male friends and I shouldn’t have. There is just something about people that makes you understand why God sent the flood and only saved one family, there is just something about people that makes you understand why God made a promise to set them on fire this time around. I figured out that I am better off not being lied to and manipulated, it made me wonder how some of these people were raised, where they born evil or they learned how to be evil until they mastered it and it became their identity?
I am not street smart, honestly I am a baby, I am not very experienced with the brutal “survival of the fittest”. I am a late bloomer who was raised at church, I was never in trouble all thanks to the fear of the unknown that my parents successfully installed in my brain so all of this betrayal was foreign to me, I decided to cut people off… Plan B failed.
Plan C: (I am still trying to play God, remember I am mad at Him for isolating me from people and then allowing me to fight all these other people by my own, making me a one woman army) This plan was great, I am tired of fighting and I tired of people taking advantage because I am mostly alone so I will be mean, yes, I will be very unapproachable. I already have the RBF and its working wonders for me, I just had to enhance it, make it more severe, just a few changes to my face and I will have no one messing me on these streets. this plan seemed to work, only… I am not mean, I am also not angry, yes I have issues but I as bubbly as a bottle of champagne and I cant change, I tried.
Plan D: Was to go back to God and make amends, I was tired of fighting and tired of finding ways not to fight. I went back to God and guess what! He took me back and added a few more encounters(because God has humor) there I was again, back at it and this time I am also fighting principalities until one day, I asked God…”What do you want from me? why so much hostility when all I wanted for 2023 was to be a soft girl?’ yep, that was me stating my case. I wanted to be soft, be a lover and not a fighter, lol the first time I actually wanted to be a lover, the first time I wanted to be vulnerable and more peaceful, the first time I wanted to allow sentimental feelings to take over was the first time God did to me what He did to Job, Yes, He let the devil maneuver with my mind and the devil didn’t hold back, he sent one Judas after the other and honey, at this point I am ready to throw hands.
When in trouble, seek God, when in anxiety seek God and when you have questions, ask God.
He answered me.
“on the 1st of January, 2023 you asked me to heal you, see I dont heal just parts of you, I heal you from the inside out and I give you the opportunity to see how deep the wounds are so you may understand that this is a job only I can do as your God, no drugs, no alcohol, no male friends can fix this but me. in every altercation, every public display of your smart mouth, every time you went head on with any one by yourself, it was an opportunity for you to see how much you are willing to walk through fire to save your life and it was a chance for me to show you that you don’t have to, you are so brave, you can stand there without fear and fight a man who probably has a gun and you dont care, I am not only healing you but I am also showing you parts of yourself that forces you to respond when you can walk away, who made you this way? I am showing you that you respond quick to threats and disrespect but you run away from vulnerability, communication and kindness? I am trying to fix what you think you deserve, you react more to war than peace. You will not fight to be understood, you will not fight for love, you will not even fight for food if you were hungry because you hate asking for help but you will fight a whole army if it came to your door, do you see the pattern? You are my love, you are mine and when you ask me to heal you, I show you what needs to be healed, I dig deep into your fears and I hate fear, fear doesnt come form me. I dig into your insecurities so you my understand you dont have to hide anything from me, I know your flaws and I love you the same, I love you, there is nothing you can do about it, I loved you before you were born, so you cant win over my love, you already have it without asking for it now start acting like my daughter, start acting like you understand who fights your battles, lean on me”
and once again, God had me in tears because beneath this strong woman I have become, who will fight for herself… there is a scared little girl who hopes that one day I wont get too far and get us both killed.
There is a reason you act the way you do, could be something you don’t want to talk about or something you don’t even know. Some experiences caused a damage within us and we are not aware because we had to be strong and we thought what we are going through was normal, it wasn’t. Find out why are you so angry, find out why you fear commitment, find out why you allow certain mistreat, find out why you love pleasing people , take accountability and allow God to fix you.
I am making progress, I am trying 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣honestly, its funny because never in my life did I think I would need to be in Gods ICU and I have been in here for a while. God dedicated 2023 to my scars, my bruised heart, the pain I dont share with my readers, the truth I am scared to face, the secret battles I fight, my insecurities and He is making me realise that I am so deserving even in my chaos, it feels to know that I dont need to be perfect to be loved by Him, I dont need to be the toughest soldier for Him to favor me and I feels so sad at times that I am only grasping this now after years of being tough.
Let God touch parts of you that you are ashamed of…He loves handling you, like clays in the potters hands, let God put you back together again.
I am crying again because I have finally let go of control and everything is still under control.
I have changed