Let us begin
by centering ourselves.
Listen to your heart.
As you do,
take a deep breath in…
and let it out.
Feel the vibration
of the Divine,
of the collective,
affirming our truth —
your truth.
Release.
A powerful word.
There was a time
I stood before a door,
lost and searching.
On that door
was a prayer:
Dear Universe,
I release freely
what no longer
serves me…
Those words struck me.
I didn’t yet know
what I was releasing —
only that I could
no longer carry it.
And then came
a deeper prayer —
the kind that cracks open
the heavens:
I believe.
Help my unbelief.
Like Jacob,
I wrestled.
Not with God’s punishment,
but with God’s presence.
I will not let You go
unless You bless me.
— Genesis 32:26
I understand that now.
That kind of refusal
is holy.
It is not resistance —
it is reverence.
It is saying:
I will stand,
not in spite of the struggle,
but because of it.
Because in the very act
of wrestling,
we are already
practicing heaven.
So in closing,
I offer this affirmation:
I bless the struggle
and carry its wisdom.
I release,
I rise,
and I return —
again and again —
to the presence of heaven within
me.
And so it is.