I was reminded of my son’s vision. He was healed on a beach, had a woman who loved him on his couch at home and he worked construction. This isn’t my place to touch what’s on his heart. That’s God’s design and will at work.

Likewise, I have one too – a dream. A vision of love.

Maybe it’s been too long for me to remember what it feels like to be in that aura.

It was prophesied that we’d both go through this. We’d have to endure in patience and we’d have little strength left but then the LORD would open a door that no man can shut and we’d be elevated beyond our wildest dreams. God is love. I look up and know that my savior is coming. Today I hope.

Let all things be made new and the house of Philadelphia be vindicated, victorious and made as a pillar in the kingdom of God as it is done now in the earth. Jesus is king. Jesus returns now as the lion. Jesus now rules forever and ever amen. By the blood of immortality and I wear this blood as his daughter. My son is saved. It is done.

Location: Philadelphia

Song: I had a vision of love Mariah Carey

Color – red

Victory – sweet

Today – I will also hear from David. Much is happening now and hearts are being changed by God. Human ego is being destroyed and the refining fire is completed in us. I welcome love. I am love. I do love. I see love. I live in eternal love as the essence of God’s blueprint of all that is and will be forever more.

It’s 12:37 a.m. in Philadelphia – home of the Eagles. Just two days ago I told Josh on the drive from LAX after we dropped his sister off at the airport and went to the parking lot to feel the jets landing above us my connection to the house of Philadelphia. It’s the 3-7 in the Bible that I etched in wood 4 years ago from the home I rented in Laguna Niguel.

Revelation 3:7 is a message to the church of Philadelphia from Christ who’s eyes are burning with fire – the LION who holds the 7 stars and the 7 candlesticks in his hand. He says that he will cause all who have hurt us to worship at our feet. He says that he will show the world that he has loved us. He says that we will be saved from the hour of temptation.

I may not understand what this means but I saw his eyes lit up as I explained the “phoenix” on fire and my long felt connection to this tribe of flying beings. I didn’t mention the vision I had when I was cracked out of my human body and saw myself as the fire being – beautiful and powerful beyond my own words. I am one of them. I believe he is too.

Tonight I realized that I was conceived on his birthday. And if not, then God wanted me to see it this way as I counted back 9 months from the date I was born to August 17, 1978. His license plate is 78 and 37. Coincidence? I think not.

He doesn’t know that every man I’ve ever encountered on this planet has let me down. He doesn’t know that he’s my last hope in redeeming the idea that I could be loved and could trust a man here on this planet. He’s my seed. And yet today, I heard his mouth spew hatred, horrible words, accusations, blame and a package of swords too sharp for my heart to not be pierced.

How can he hurt me with his tongue like that? I don’t know.

Hours later Tamra called and told me that Josh was leaving. He told her that he needed to be alone as he packed his things for Glenn’s house. Why would he want to go there? The man that has been threatening me for weeks and refused to pay me the money I was owed is where he wants to go live? A complete stranger who’s talked crap about me in every way he possibly can is where my son chose to live tonight.

This is dejavu backtrack 6 years ago when he left with his dad. He was the reason I fought his dad – furious at what the man was doing to him and the way he was using him to hurt me. And yet he left me to be with that. And here he does the same thing and I don’t understand why.

I asked from my heart as anger and confusion pushed hot tears from my eyes, “God why is this happening?” and immediately received the song, “Just let go, let it go let it go, let it flow… Everything’s going to work out right you know,” from Tony Braxton. So tonight that’s certainly my prayer – that everything works out right. I hope he finds a good job and I hope he’s safe. I hope he’s cared for and feels my love even when I can’t see him or talk to him. I hope God does a miracle in a situation that seems far from ideal and perfect in this peculiar turning of events.

Both Scott and Dave are in Arizona. One was watching The Oakridge Boys from a Casino and the other is writing a book and trying to heal from a rare neurological condition. Not that either of them play a role in the next chapter of God’s plan in my life but in the now moment I have no others that I speak to or think about. The Scott who’s appeared in my dreams isn’t in this picture – but connected to one of them. He’s the reason we spoke in the first place online.

Whatever happens next, I feel is completely out of my hands. But my heart battles for goodness and cries out nonstop for God to work miracles in my son’s path and in mine too. Perhaps that’s what is meant to be right now. I am to be silent with my lips – unseen and unheard with weapons that don’t require human speech or action. I pray for Josh to get a great job, be protected and be led by angels to a breakthrough beyond anything I could do. As I am powerless in this moment, I pray that my prayers are met with swift happenings of a magnitude only God could be responsible for. And as for my secret 37 promise that was spoken to me at my 37th birthday; I pray that I see the gift of this soon too. I don’t even know who he is, let alone how to win his heart or meet him in my journey. God will have to reveal that to me and so I retreat now and stop trying to convince anyone to love me. I won’t message D or S and I won’t post on instagram seeking attention. I will be Anasilan and watch the Lord work.

There is so much love underneath this sky tonight and I ask for the power of my Father in Heaven to shake this earth and the heavens to let love be the reason these words will have merit. This is the story of hope when all looks impossible and ruined. This is the story of faith without any physical evidence of anything good incoming. I don’t know what job I’m to work, what person I’m to lean on or what future I’m to look forward to.

But God’s word says that his plans for me are good.

God has been telling me for a while now to “Let go and let God” through a number of sources. He’s safe with a room and roof over his head here at Tamra’s. He needs a lot but the basic place to stay is for now secure. She’s loving and understanding of his circumstances and that’s a blessing. It’s a HUGE blessing.

He’s frustrated because everything here in So-Cal is very expensive. It’s not easy to start in a new place where you don’t know anyone and in a big city especially where everything seems scary and foreign. To let go and let God I feel means that maybe my forceful actions in trying to solve everything with my mind and my hands isn’t working out. But, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a role. I will do my best to act in love and keep myself calm.

I will also act in prayer – through my sandbox and through my heart.

So today, I ask God for these miracles…… as I prepare to leave on a 2-day trip:

  • Josh will make some money whether Uber Eats or another outlet.
  • Josh will make some friends & acquaintances who whisper guidance through the Lord (angels unaware).
  • Josh will have hope & see a light through something positive today and feel loved and welcome here.
  • Josh will have doctor visits opened for whatever he needs
  • Josh will have the visit for his teeth and see divine guidance in that also to have his front teeth fixed.

I also ask for a heart softening for all today. Tamra’s son and boyfriend and mom have been so loving to me and my son. I ask that all barriers, fears and lies be broken in the name of Jesus. This could be the extended family divinely orchestrated and I’m grateful for it and am asking God to do miracles in our hearts.

I also ask for Andy and Kenna to have a good talk and for Andy to get that flight attendant job. I know it would be great for him and a huge weight off of everyone for him to have benefits and a good future. And I ask for Nathan’s new job to be great too. I also ask for my own health to prosper as I ask and pray and believe that God is reading my sandbox letters.

Finally, I ask for my children and dog and all in my life to be divinely protected against all evil, and to be kept safe and in the arms of God’s angels of protection, healing and divine guidance.

Ok… Gonna get ready for my trip to Maui.

Let the Lord reign and be sovreign and his will be done in the earth as it is in the heavens. Let Josh have hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).

As soon as I completed my writing in the blog last night, I received a horrible phone call from Glenn. I asked him how my son was doing and asked him if I needed to get him a hotel room since he had given his room and bed to a visitor that showed up the night before. The man told me, “No he’s fine on the couch.” Then he immediately shifted the conversation to attack me. He said that I had provided horrible work on the film festival I had spent the last several weeks creating logos, images and drafting a sponsorship deck for the team to use. “You threw this together and didn’t even read it before you sent it,” he accused. I was confused. I spent the whole day when I flew back from my last trip sitting with this man and his friend Lloyd from New York, going page by page to write notes of all changes they requested. There wasn’t a single item that I had missed in editing the draft before sending it back over to them for another review.

“What did I do wrong in the slide deck?” I asked. “You used the wrong font for Sam’s name and did you even look at the back page?” I sat in silence for several moments. “Are you going to tell me what’s wrong with the back page?” My number! My phone number! How could you get my phone number wrong?” I thought it was so odd the way he was acting – yelling like a child having a tempter tantrum. “That’s it? You’re mad there was a typo on your phone number? That’s a 2 second fix,” I responded. “That’s not the point! Do you really not know me? You don’t know my phone number?” From there it went downhill even further very fast. He told me that I am his employee and I need to act like all of his other employees and do as he says since he’s paying me to do a job. He then said that he can pay anyone to do what I do and he’ll find someone that follows directions.

When I got of of the phone with this person, I was in shock. The voice I had spoken to seemed more like a hate filled demon than a man who had just 2 weeks earlier opened up to me about his long term goals and intent to start an organization to help abused women and kids. I spent the next two hours trying to find a hotel room for my son to sleep in. Every single place I tried was sold out with no rooms. Finally, I gave into tears and frustration. My son said he was going to just go back to his house and sleep on the couch. And he was angry with me for fighting with Glenn. He didn’t understand what had transpired. It broke my heart he didn’t believe me that I did nothing to deserve such harsh treatment.

Last night was one of the hardest nights I’ve had in a long time. My stomach hurt so badly I thought I might need to go to the ER. I cried and placed a heating pad over my belly. Then a strange number messaged me a song link that said, “Let go and let God.” And underneath it, he posted a scripture:

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.[a]

I went to bed in a puddle of my tears and woke the next morning (only 3 hours later) to a message from my airline that I’d been rerouted to Dominican Republic. And I prayed the entire way to the bus, to the plane and up into the air for the strength to get through this day. And God was faithful.

Tonight he sleeps on that man’s couch hopefully for the last time. But I can’t control what happens next – as the scripture says. I am to let go and let God. I have no idea what God’s doing right now. I have no idea how this is going to work out, where we will live long term, where Josh can get a job to support himself and pay his insurance and food. I have no idea how this will go living at Tamra’s house and I feel a heavy guilt about bringing my son into her home – knowing that she only recently was able to become an empty nester and have her freedom. But in that too, I must shift my focus. My son is a gift. He’s a beautiful gift from God and I’m so grateful he’s in my life. And maybe he will be a beautiful gift for Tamra’s life too. I pray that is the case. I pray that miracles are coming our way and fast. But to believe that God is doing a mighty work and to see its course is a very different thing. God has never done things the way I thought he would do them or expected it all to turn out. He is a Father of many surprises and an author that writes our stories in ways that even the best story-tellers on the planet can’t predict his next move.

If someone would’ve told me 2 months ago that I’d be living with a script writer I met in the galley of an airplane and my son was going to drive 25 hours unexpectedly to California where he too would join us two women in the little condo in Woodland Hills, I’d have told them they’re crazy. But here we are.

I’m like a reporter – living inside of a roller coaster ride of a story with no idea what happens next. I’m living by the seat of my pants and doing my best to stay focused on the faith that God has placed in me when this journey all began. Back in the TIRR hospital, where the nurses called the place “Hotel California” I learned that I’m not in control of the script of my life – that a divine author had been planning a plot my entire life, weaving puzzle pieces together with great purpose. God has given me exactly what I need, exactly when I needed it and there was nothing that happened nor was there any person who played an instrumental role in my life that wasn’t there for good reason. Purple Stones. It was the name of the chapter that shaped my experience more than anything else I’d learned from it all – that God is sovereign and Jesus is the author who writes in the sand and the sand is this body made of dust that he has placed me in for the ride called life.

Purple stones was also symbolic of a promise I received with the purple bible and the purple ring. It seems the promise had an instruction manual. Why haven’t I seen this connection before? The purple bible was like a treasure map that I would need for the journey to my promised land.

Today I wear a turquoise stone on my left hand that mysteriously was in my suitcase when I left Maui on Valentine’s Day. This too seems like a promise of sorts. Perhaps that will be the place I one day get married to my soulmate that God has prepared for me and my son will be there, walking me down the isle and giving my hand away to the one the Lord has placed his love inside of.

Wrapping this up, I heard a voice say as I was turning the light off to my hotel room, “The script writer is about to get her big story.” And somehow I knew that me and my son are tied to this message. I don’t want to speculate further. I always get it wrong when I try to figure out what God is doing.

As a little child, amazed by the workmanship of her Heavenly Father’s design, I will go to sleep tonight in peace knowing that God is doing something big for me and my kids. And tonight I pray this prayer…

Dear Jesus,

Your word says that I shall lean not on my own understanding, but acknowledge you in all my ways and you will make my path straight. I feel like this is telling me to get back into your word. I ask you tonight to gift me the guidance to read the Bible and know what it is you wish for me to study when I get back. I ask you to give me instruction and show me your ways – teach me your ways and differentiate this inner voice inside of me that is of you from all other voices in the world. Erase what I’ve learned or thought or believed that hinders my ability to acknowledge YOUR WAY. Make my path straight and help me to seek you and find you in all things. Lead me to the people you wish for me to walk with and those who will be guides for my son too. Gift us with your blessings, favor and the story that glorifies who you are – our loving Father.

Let tomorrow be a beautiful day of new love, new beginnings and transition in peace. Make Josh feel like he has found his home with me and Tamra; even if it’s only meant to be for a little while in your book you are writing with our lives. Let it be home. Let it be the feeling of home and filled with YOUR love and deep compassion for one another. Thank you Lord.

In Jesus Name,

Amen.

Today I received a gift I wasn’t expecting. Roger texted asking for my Zelle and said he was selling my washer and dryer to a couple for $500. A few minutes later I received the alert that the money had been received and immediately I thought it odd that just yesterday I was scrambling for ideas to raise some cash. I have spent a lot on my son over the last few weeks since he arrived in California. And then I learned that my second home I’ve ever sold is interested in listing with me for sale. That would be a huge victory to list and sell such a property when I’m in such dire need to make ends meet and figure out a plan for Josh and I to live.

It seems as soon as he arrived in California, things started looking up for me. I received a way to buy a car after months of crying and praying for God to help me get a loan and find something I could afford. Then I was blessed with the film festival project from Glenn offering to hire me to make extra money. And Tamera even offered to make Josh a room so he could stay with me in LA if things don’t work out in Orange County where Josh is staying with the man on his couch.

This all started when I went to Florida on the last weekend of May. My daughter picked me up and took me to the beach where we collected sand and seashells together for a new prayer box I’m making at Tamera’s. There me and Kenna prayed together over Josh. Within 48 hours I received a call from Texas when Josh woke me up at 3 a.m. to let me know he was in his car and driving to me. I panicked. I didn’t have anywhere for him to stay as I myself am renting a room from a woman I met in the galley of an airplane. Then Glenn called asking if I wanted to go surfing with him. I was crying and told him the news of Josh’s phone call and impossible trip on a 25 hour drive in a car that isn’t sound enough to make it across the city let alone across the country. “Send him here,” Glenn said.

So many miracles have happened in big ways and small and as I sit here preparing to digest the conversation I just had over the phone with a woman named Sarah, who is the recipient of my washer and dryer, I feel ashamed of myself. I thank God in words in letters I write nightly but it seems I’m just going through the motions. I’m doing what I was taught to do and what I think is the right thing to do – seek gratitude and speak praise for good news. But my heart isn’t convinced. I’ve been full of fear – contemplating everyone’s motives, what will fall apart next and frustrated that Josh doesn’t yet have a job or opportunity, he doesn’t yet have a home and he’s still so far away from me as I jump on airplanes and shuffle back and forth between two cities to see him and also try to rest on my short stays in California between trips.

I feel like I’m paddling as hard as I can and getting pummeled by the waves rather than enjoying the ride and allowing the tides to uplift me and carry me safely to the shore. By the way that imagery is exactly what happened to me when I attempted surfing for the first time this week with Glenn, Josh and Glenn’s friend.

When I talk to Tamera I’m murmuring and complaining about Glenn. When I talk to Glenn I’m murmuring and complaining about what’s not working out – the big laundry list of things that I need to be perfectly in place before I can focus on anything and breath with a normal heart rate. When I talk to my Mom I’m angry she’s trying to tell me who I should date or owe my love to, (namely Glenn). When I talk to Josh I’m telling him he should respect me and speak sweetly to me. I seem to be judging everything and everyone rather than following the very advice I gave to a woman over this phone call about 20 minutes ago.

Sarah’s husband was diagnosed with Leukemia and moved to MD Anderson in Houston weeks ago. “They say he’s now braindead,” she told me as my heart leaped out of my chest and tears filled my eyes. I remember being in her shoes not that long ago. I remember praying 24/7 without ceasing over my children’s father and I remember God performing miracle upon miracle that defied logic and shamed the expertise of modern science as a man with a tragically damaged brain made leaps and strides in a miraculous recovery. As I told Sarah the story I felt ashamed again when I said, “And then he divorced me 3 years after his stroke.” It makes no sense. Even still today I don’t understand why that man’s brain healed well enough to drive a car and go to the gym but not enough to try to love me and fight for me.

“His ways are not our ways and his understanding not our understanding,” the Bible says. The cross is a plus sign – literally a sign of positivity and positive charge. Jesus is the author that holds the power to take any story, no matter how negative and dire the situation and he can rewrite it (in the sand) at any given moment to turn it all around. “Be positive,” I hear the Holy Spirit say to me as I ponder what it means to actually believe in the cross of Christ. To raise Lazarus from the dead, to defeat death, to set the captives free, cause the lame to walk, give sight to the blind and raise the dead back to life again. This is positive stuff. This is what the Lord’s power can do and has done in my experiences.

The woman cried soulful tears to me and spoke out loud, “I don’t want to be a widow.” I prayed with her and then I told her this:

“The best advice I can give to you is to focus on the positive. No matter how bad it is – even if you’re told 80 things in bad news from those doctors, you seek the good news and you shout it from the roof tops and celebrate it!” She then told me about how today at the hospital, Sam’s heart rate went down and he was breathing on his own in the ventilator. That’s exactly the kind of news I cringed to when I was faced with teams of doctors reading off pages of deficits over Josh’s hospital bed. I would find the one diamond in their reports, even in the face of remarks like, “There’s a good chance he won’t live through the night.” I’d respond with, “Praise God his temperature is down today!”

So tonight I’m grateful not just for the $500 unexpected gift and the opportunity to list a million dollar home but I’m grateful for the lesson I received in speaking to Sarah as she walks through a type of storm few can relate to at her age. I can. I’ve been her. God answered my prayers and responded to my praise in positivity.

Within seconds after I ended the call with Sarah I received a text message from the paraplegic man I met on an airplane last year in Florida. He said that I was on his heart and resent a song called “Let go and let God” that he texted to me last week, without a response from me. I know God is using him to speak a message to be about the powerlessness I felt in ICU room #79 when I laid on the floor and pleaded for God to gift me a miracle and let Josh live. It’s when I gave up the fight and allowed myself to let go – when I knew I’d done everything I could and the doctors had done everything they could and the outcome belonged to God and God alone – only then did I get to see God’s mighty hand move because my perspective changed. I saw that he is truly sovereign and that all people and all things belong to him ultimately, not me.

So tonight, I pray for God to move powerfully in all the moving pieces of my life and my son’s life and my daughter’s and all the love he’s given me in my heart. I ask for miracle upon miracle to flow in like rain and I ask for the Prince of Peace to give me rest in my weary soul.

I keep trying to find a way to move Josh to LA and what if that’s not what God is doing? What if God wants Josh there with those men and what if that’s the exact situation he’s crafted for my son to give him a new door open? What if Glenn is good for Josh in ways that I can’t understand or perceive? What if something is about to happen that will blow my mind with all the glory of God working in our circumstances?

I know this. My daughter and I prayed for a miracle for Josh and he’s now in California. He’s alive and seems to be in a much better place than he was 3 weeks ago. He’s being very sweet and telling me he loves me. I’m getting money from unexpected places and job offers. I have a car finally. I have a place to live. I have a job and opportunities opening up. My daughter is independent and safe and has friends and making it all alone in Florida. My mom has bridged an amazing relationship with her. I have a new friend Tamera who’s treating me like family. My dog is safe and sound in Texas. My ex-husband is still alive 9 years after death tried to take him (and doing well according to my daughter). I am 24 to 48 hours from spending more beautiful moments with my boy. This is pretty amazing.

Thank you God. Thank you JESUS. You are the positive sign. You are here and you are working miracles in the midst of us. The Malibu Miracle is unfolding now and I am so blessed to get to witness all you are doing and testify of it in these words I type tonight.

Isaiah 53.5 says “by HIS stripes we are healed” and Jesus is healing my son and me too. Our hearts. Our relationship. Our bodies. Our souls.

Isaiah 29:11 says “for I know the plans I have for you says the Lord – plans to give you hope and a future.” Jesus is giving me hope and Josh is going to have a beautiful future with me in California. I’ve seen it. He’s seen it too. He and I received the same vision of us together in the future happy, healed with more love around us than we can even imagine. We both saw him with a beautiful girl he loves. This is happening now just as the Lord showed us in the visions.

So if “Faith is the substance of what we hope for but don’t yet see,” then perhaps those visions are a piece of the substance of faith. Maybe all of my moves that seem crazy to others as I’ve walked away from everything I ever knew or had worked for in order to chase visions and dreams I believed were from God are the true essence of what it means to walk by faith. When we do something that makes no sense because we believe it’s what God is calling us to do.

I may not see how anything will work out in this present moment as I try to bridge the gap between where we are today and the beautiful vision I hold onto that God gifted me before I moved to California, but I do believe I will see that day. So maybe I don’t know the way because I’m not meant to. Maybe I’m being called to let go and just ride this wave as far as it takes me – praying and believing that EVERYTHING is working for our good. All the delays, setbacks and challenges aren’t mine to fix. But GOD is doing this…… and it will be done.

In Jesus Name,

Amen.

Today has been a day of 17 – over and over again. It was the gate at every single flight I flew, the number on the jersey flashing over a screen of the Dodger Stadium going wild and even the room number I ended up with tonight; 917.

As I watched the batter take the plate waiting on a chicken sandwich at the steakhouse downstairs of my hotel, again seeing the number 17, I remembered the words of Dennis last November predicting that this year I would meet my twin soul. He told me that my ex husband was not my person and the one I’d met in LA was not either. Alice even instructed me to “shut the door and seal it closed.” But it’s very hard to let go of the love you feel for others when you don’t see a replacement in your future or even know that such a person could exist.

I don’t want to be selfish in my pursuits and I certainly don’t wish to write on this space a dialogue of my heartbreaks with essentially every man I’ve ever had in my life beginning with my first stepdad that left when I was a little child. However, I also don’t want to be fake. To deny my own inner thoughts is to suppress emotions that ultimately make me feel ill and at war with my own heart. Speaking of that, the scripture I started blogging about last night on my instagram has an opening line I didn’t see last night. In reading it images immediately entered into my mind as I was downstairs awaiting my order.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. – Galatians 8:7

To sow to please the flesh is to reap corruption? Does that include in love? The vision that flashed inside of my mind was first of D and then of the man who’s let my son stay with him over the past 2 weeks. What I feel in my intuition is deception that I have no reason to feel towards someone who’s helped me so much. And to be honest I’ve guilted myself for this feeling and even convinced myself that I’m the one with a problem because I don’t trust men. I mean, it’s understandable because I’ve literally never had one show me true love that isn’t wrapped around motive. My step dads left with the marriage to my mother and both of them made these cuts final when a new woman demanded they do so. The man seems to be drawn to love of the flesh first and foremost and will even deceive, betray and abandon his own child in order to get that body love from the woman who’s pleasing his flesh. I saw the same with my ex-husband. I couldn’t have done any better to show him true love after his brain accident. To lay my life down for another human and focus only on his life and his healing was the most amazing act I’ve ever witnessed in myself. And to be honest, I knew it wasn’t me that was in the drivers seat at all – this was a spiritual love; God’s agape love that he was pouring into me and I was pouring out into another. But when temptation came into his life as his brother took him to strip clubs and he found porn sites as his pastime in the house, he then began acting as an enemy to me. He literally tried to destroy my life and only seemed focused on how many women he would have sex with after he moved out. His words were honest in making sure I knew of this. But why? What is in a man that makes him hate the true love (agape) when the physical love between a man and a woman is lacking. I wasn’t giving him sex and therefore I was worthless in his eyes. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Last Fall when I told D that I didn’t want to see him anymore I experienced my first dose of vulnerability and panic in his voice. I could sense it easily when he called back stuttering on his own words. “Well, the sex has value. It’s very valuable,” he told me before unfolding his side of a debate to try to convince me that I should be satisfied with our strange situation. It hurts as a woman to admit to myself that I’ve never truly known a man’s love outside of this parable. But the ultimate wound I carry is that of my son’s departure from my life. He didn’t leave because of a woman or sex but maybe in a way that was part of his decision. I was a strict mom that made him follow a curfew and never gave him a lot of space. I would imagine that was a little embarrassing to a teenage boy who was trying to impress girls and have fun outside of his schooling.

I don’t want to make the same mistake again as he’s back in my life and here with me in California. I really want him to live and I want him to know that I love him and to feel that I trust him. Likewise, I don’t want to hurt anymore or walk in bitterness of all the woes that have come upon me at the hands of a man. This abandonment wound I carry and the self-worth issue tied to feeling like I’m always only as valuable as the sex, (as D so ineloquently put it), creates a layer of darkness around my thoughts in how I view love and relationships.

Is it possible to have both? Can I have a man in my life who loves me fully and completely? Is there a man God made just for me who will see me as precious as a Father sees a daughter and as beautiful and desirable as a husband sees his bride? Can God’s agape love be the driving force of a man who walks by the spirit and all the rest seen as icing on the cake? To appreciate sex as a gift given to the man and woman as a pleasurable expression of the love they have inside is a type of dreamlike idea that I’ve never seen or witnessed. But I hope it exists.

My son loves me. I felt it tonight when I was talking to him on the phone as I walked the river downtown Spokane. He sent me a picture of a rocket in the sky and I confessed I was lost trying to get back to my hotel at dusk. “Mom, don’t do that. Don’t go walking in these cities alone. Find your way and call me right back so I know you’re OK,” he ordered as a protector over me. It felt good. Not the being the lost part. But the authenticity of concern in his voice is something I’ve missed so badly since he went away 6 years ago to live with his father. To be loved like that, where a person feels a heart connection that prompts oversight of your being is a wish I would imagine every woman has somewhere inside of her.

Tomorrow I fly home and for the first time ever, I have no desire to see LA with a hope that D will call and come visit me. Rather, I want to see God’s miracles unfolding in my life with my son now there. I have these odd little dreams of him getting back on the horse with inspiration to be an athlete again. Maybe he could play pro baseball or basketball or even be a type of trainer. I don’t know if he even has that desire but I have a hunch it’s still there. After all, his first word was ball.

What if the story I’ve been trying to write for years as I see prophecy and hope only in the spaces of consciousness without physical evidence of its existence, is about him? What if he is going to be someone someday that inspires millions of young men who walk in his shoes and will someday in the future too? What if he’s the boy chosen by God to go through hell and come out of it all on the other side as a testimony of the Sovereignty and miracles sent down by the Father of Lights?

I pray for God’s best to be the substance of this hope that my eyes will one day soon see.

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank you for the power of prayer as a weapon that you’ve gifted me to come before you and ask for your hand to author the painful parts of my life. Thank you for the miracle of Josh coming to California in the beginning of June. Thank you for the people who’ve opened their hearts and their homes to let us stay. Thank you for the shimmer of hope I have today in the number 17 as I believe you’re showing me that this is where you’re working right now in my path. Lord, you know everything. You know our financial situation and that he needs work, a home, a reliable car, friends and angels of inspiration in the flesh to open doors and motivate him to walk in the direction of the path you have lit for his good and your Glory. Your word says you are the author and finisher of our faith and our stories and so tonight I ask you to give me discernment by YOUR spirit to know your plan and where we should live. I ask you to make it clear to me and lead me in love not anxiety. I ask you to make a miracle plot twist in all things as you can change our entire worlds in one single moment. I ask for redemption and abundance in love, career, faith and the testimony I seek to write and share here and now. I ask you for your best and I thank you Lord that you’re here and you hear me tonight.

In Jesus Name,

Amen

As I arrived in Spokane today after a night that was extremely difficult, I picked up the pen and started to write God a letter. I told him thank you for sending people in my life who are willing to help me and my son. Then my phone rang and distracted me into conversations with one of those angels. After hanging up the phone call I received a text from a man I met who produces stories for Channel 4. He accidentally texted me about his production van – “oops wrong Jodi,” he said. And then my phone showed me that magical number “37” hovering over my Facebook icon.

I honestly can’t remember the last time I opened Facebook. In my face was a post by a young man named Desmond Benjamin. He quoted Phillips 1: 9-10; and posted a prayer asking for God’s discernment. I felt like it was my own prayer from my heart now as I seek guidance from God in a difficult situation.

It was 2015 and our last season playing in the competitve youth circuits of Texas football. We made the decision to move from a league called Humble to a neighboring community in a town called Kingwood. As a predominately white, higher income area we assumed the season would be less intense and far less dramatic than the Humble league, where football games often turned to violence and parental arguments. We couldn’t have been more wrong.

My ex-husband Jake had signed up as a coach in the Kingwood Football league and because of the end-of-season All Star tournaments, the other fathers in the sport knew us well. We always had a winning team and my son’s reputation as a stand-out quarterback had made him somewhat of a local celebrity among Friday Night Lights lovers. In fact, just a few weeks before the draft, he appeared on a Sunday Night Football highlight real on ESPN and was featured in a HBO Documentary called Rising Stars. His fame as a little kid quarterback and youtube phenomenon, while very exciting to watch as a proud mother, also came with a new level of worry and danger. Kids were jealous and Dad’s hated him.

On draft day, there was another new face to the league at try-outs named Desmond. Despite his lack of experience in playing the sport, Jake picked him very first in the draft. The other coaches in the room laughed in mockery at what they presumed to be a horrible decision on his part. “I know an athlete when I see one,” Jake told me. “I can train him to be great.” But a few days after the completion of the teams, Jake received a call from the President of the Kingwood Football League. He claimed that the board had voted to not allow Desmond to play in this year’s football season because he had not completed the payment requirements on time. Panicked that he would lose his number one draft pick, he asked me if we could pay the boy’s $360 fee. I agreed to it.

The next day at practice I met Desmond’s mother. She immediately ran up with tears in her eyes and thanked me for the gesture. She explained that Desmond and her had just driven to Texas from LA a few weeks before to stay with a distant aunt, who was her only living family member. Desmond’s father wasn’t active in his life and the single mother of 2 had fallen into hard times. Meanwhile she explained that her 11 year old son wasn’t in a very good place mentally. He was timid, shy and had been through quite a bit of trauma, making it difficult for him to socialize at school. She thought football would be a saving grace to help him meet new friends and distract his mind from all that had happened back in California. In this conversation I also found out that she was struggling to find a job and the kids were living out of a suitcase of only a few items in their car. I put her in contact with several friends to help her find employment, and over the next few days went shopping for Desmond to have clothes for practice, a new helmet, football pads and cleats.

Devon and Josh were a quartrback – runningback match made in Heaven at the season opener – taking turns running up the scoreboard on the previous season’s undefeated team. We won our first game by a shut out, prompting the board of competitive fathers to meet again and raise issue with Desmond’s participation. Dads hate to lose and will stop at nothing to shut down what stands in their way of victory. After a long political fight on a weekday night at the fields, the board voted in favor of Desmond continuing to play and found no rules in the bylaws that prohibited the family of a coach from sponsoring another kid financially. The next day after practice I found a letter tucked into the windshield wiper of my Yukon from an anonymous author. It was full of hateful remarks and threats towards my son. The angry parent who’d left the racially charged note showed extreme hatred towards my family, stating, “Go back to your side of the bridge. We don’t want our kids around your ghetto trash.” The letter continued on with cruel remarks about my son and Desmond and concluded with threats towards my son and my family.

We played on and the kids finished the season undefeated and titled “Superbowl Champions” despite the drama, the threats, the continual chatter and name calling from the stands to the kids on the football field and a list of setbacks along the way, (even to include benching my son for a game after he made a block for Desmond the parents complained was too hard of a hit). We were proud of the boys not only for how they played, but in the inner strength they displayed to fight through difficult circumstances under the influence of discord and hatred.

The very last time the boys played together was January of 2016 during a 7 on 7 state championship tournament held at Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. They didn’t win the tournament that day. But it was a great weekend trip full of fun, laughter and good times. I recall feeling so proud of our son and our family for the close bond formed with the strangers from LA who showed up in dire need of help and a little bit of love.

That March Jake had a traumatic brain injury and almost lost his life. The very first visitor to see him after he was stabilized and transferred to a rehabilitation center was Desmond. When the young boy entered the room he broke down in tears, leaning over Jake’s bed to give him a big hug and a letter he’d written. I read it out loud to Jake as all of our eyes were full of tears. His letter was written on the subject of gratitude for Jake and me and the kids. He told us how much we’d impacted his life and how we felt like family to him. That was the last time I saw Desmond and his mom.

Ten years later, on June 4th in 2025, I received a call from my son in Texas to let me know that he’s on his way to California. It’s been 6 years since I’ve had a permanent placement in his life and words can’t begin to explain the hurt my heart has endured in watching my sweet boy dwindle away into a place much like the little Desmond that I’d met all those years ago. After his Dad’s brain injury, our family fell apart – piece by piece. His father’s memory never recovered, he lost his emotional attachments to me and the kids and hasn’t been capable of playing the role of a good dad. Yet my son refused to leave him – isolating in a room where he hasn’t had friends, a job or any normalcy in years. He pushed away me and his sister, the ones who love him and wish more than anything to see him healed.

This phone call was an answer to years of prayers. But it didn’t exactly come at a time of ease for me. I’ve only been in California for a few weeks now and am renting a room with a beautiful woman I met in the galley of an airplane months back. I have no place for my son to live. In fact it’s the first time in my life that I’ve had nothing to offer my kids. I don’t even have a car to get myself to and from work – taking Ubers and borrowing my roommate’s vehicle when I could. I don’t have the money to support him and I’m an emotional wreck myself after many years of falling deeper into a dark place as I’ve watched my baby boy’s physical and emotional health dwindle away.

A friend in Dana Point that I met a few years ago through real estate called me on that morning when my son set his broken down, barely operational car in the direction of west. “Send him here. I have a couch he can sleep on,” Glenn said – as if an angel had whispered in his ear an assignment to help. And now two weeks later my roomate, who is the most loving mother I’ve ever seen towards her own son is now offering to make him a bedroom out of the spare space on the first floor.

I know we have a long way to go and I’m not sure how we will get there. But today, something magical gave me a shimmer of hope. You see, about a year ago, my son who is quite imaginative and spiritually connected, told me that he keeps seeing the repetitive number 37. “When I see it, I have this strange feeling that God is telling me it has to do with a promise. And it has something to do with you Mom,” he explained. Today I saw the #37 pop up on my cell phone, hovering above the Facebook Icon. I clicked it and the first thing on my page was a message written by Desmond.

He quoted Philippians and shared a prayer about discernment. I felt as if he was speaking directly to my own heart as I’ve been battling with decisions in trying to find the best path for me and my son forward. I need him to find a foot forward with good friends, a job, healing in his body and hope for a future. I need this for me too.

Just yesterday I journaled about a scripture that was heavy on my heart. It says, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” I’ve struggled with this text because for the longest time now I’ve felt like my life was in some sort of punishment phase. I wondered what I’ve done so wrong to reap such horrible circumstances for me and my children. But today, seeing this message from Desmond and the reminder of how God’s love placed on my heart impacted a single mother who had driven across the country from LA to Houston ten years ago is now being activated in other hearts towards me and my son.

In a world that seems dark and full of selfishness and greed, it’s not easy to keep walking in faith – believing that God has a plan to restore all that I’ve lost. But there is still good out there. He’s still on the throne and the spirit of Love (which is God) is alive and well today in these angels who have been placed in my path here in California. Perhaps we truly do reap what we sow and I’m grateful that in my times of plenty, God moved through me to help others and in my time of need and despair God is moving in the hearts of others to help me and my son find a light at the end of this dark tunnel.

To be continued…..

I’m not the only one chasing a story. It’s the reason we’re drawn to chaos and bad news in the first place; we want to make sure we don’t miss the set-up scene before the hero enters the plot and saves the day. There’s no error in the pursuit, but in the Glory we fail time and time again – pinning greatness upon humans without rightly crediting the source from which strength begins.

I’ve learned a lot about myself through the years and the conclusion isn’t soothing at all. I’ve seen my weakness – all of it. I’ve learned that I’m capable of the thoughts, deeds and actions of the worst walking the planet, given the right circumstances. Likewise, I’ve learned the only thing standing between me and becoming one with that darkness is the light of God. I’ve never stopped praying. I’ve prayed through the smallest moments of glory clinging to the tiniest glimmer of hope that could be found. And I’ve prayed through countless nights of terror, torment and tears unending.

He’s still alive. And over the last week I’ve understood with clarity that this is the reason I’m able to keep getting out of bed each day. As my mind is swimming in scenes of what could go wrong paired with real life images and encounters with the evidence of destruction upon us I keep tight hold to the one piece of good news I can stand on. He’s still here. He’s still breathing. God keeps rising the sun with a world where I still have a son. And that’s beautiful because it means God’s not done yet.

Last night I laid in torment thinking through the details of all that I need to figure out how to do with no money in the bank and the heavy task of finding an open door for a place my son and I can live and a car for me to drive to and from work. Then there’s the element of influence in those factors. If I’m hardly here because my job requires me to live in the clouds how will I find time to get him groomed, get his teeth fixed and sprinkle him with inspiration to find a job, make friends and maybe even pick up the basketball again?

I woke with another remembrance of words said to me on the plane yesterday from the security guard in 37A. “Don’t be surprised if you one day find out that your son had an encounter while on that drive from Texas to California.” I wonder if like me in my teenage years clinging to life in the face of death, if my son had seen the likeness of such an experience. I wonder if he would tell anyone if he had. He only shared with me the fear of the car breaking down as he was driving steep mountains in the desert.

Then I woke up and looked outside, sniffling through the symptoms of my immune system fighting something I don’t have time to let bring me down right now, and I saw a big black man walking a dog to the park as images behind him at Warner flashed in the sunlight with bodies moving on pull-up bars and running on the track. “His first word was ball,” an inner voice whispered to me. Then as I moved slowly downstairs trying to get the Npresso machine to spit out a little bit of caffeine I heard the security man’s voice in my memory say, “Everyone I’m meeting traveling the world is a piece to the puzzle of what I want to do with my mom’s hotel.” Puzzle pieces. He sees what I see. It’s all a masterpiece of God’s design being woven together in ways we can’t understand.

Cleaning out my travel bag as my thoughts danced in the details of my son’s strange decision to wake up, jump in a car that barely runs and head for California just days ago brought me back to the experience my daughter had in driving to Florida 2 years ago. She had a plan for her father to accompany her in a U-haul as the movers finished loading up the last of her belongings and she called me in tears to tell me the bad news. “My dad says he’s not coming. He said he’s handicap and doesn’t think the drive will be good for his health and fears he could have another stroke or high blood pressure.” She talked through clouds of tears as her muffled voice struggled to make words. Moments after getting off the phone with her as I fought against a panic attack my phone chimed with a text message from a boy I’d met months back on a plane from LA to Houston. He’s a professional basketball player who was injured before entering the NBA draft, made a miraculous comeback and today plays ball oversees as his gift has taken on a new life in also speaking life into kids as a testimony of what God did for him.

I looked down at Alexa to see a news story flashing on the screen of NBA battles and again heard in my inner voice, “His first word was ball.”

Today my son would probably struggle to walk around the block after years of atrophy in his muscles confined to a small dark room at his father’s house where his only friend was addiction and escape. He’s probably only 140 pounds sopping wet. He hasn’t had a haircut in a year, his long fingernails are harboring dirt from the decay, his entire mouth needs to be pulled of diseased teeth and reset with veneers and he speaks the phrase often, “I’m too far gone.” Meanwhile I’m the crazy woman who once managed a famous youtube channel titled “Texas Football Mom” who learned to believe in miracles by watching him on a field, inspiring me to believe that the size of man doesn’t hold a candle in war with the size of his heart.

Lion. That’s what he is. My leo baby born on August 17th, 2001 as the world welcomed him in with an attack on American soil in the tragedy of September 11th. Perhaps that event was a prologue to what his journey would look like here on earth. From the destruction and from the ashes a phoenix will rise. By the way, the phoenix rising is the logo of the security guard in seat 37A. He described himself as a boy born into a family with a father that had nothing to give but a mother who is a strong prayer warrior and businesswoman. That was me when my son began to fall. Somewhere deep inside of me is a phoenix waiting to rise again too. In hope. In perseverance and in alignment to the word of God that I speak over my son’s life from the book of Jeremiah 29;11 – “I know the plans for you says the Lord. Plans to give you hope and a future.”

Back to the subject of puzzle pieces. Glenn is on a mission as a widow of the angel who I believe had a hand in our paths crossing. He want’s Val’s book to be made into a movie. It’s her legacy and ironically it’s his childhood dream also to be in the creative arts and film industry. He seems to think I’m the key holding the power to unlock this dream – as a writer and a soul who is seemingly connected to the ancestors and angels. Which I am, whether I understand it or even welcome such a gift that often feels more like a cloud of confusion. But I wonder does Glenn see puzzle pieces too. I wonder if he understands the key in his own hands right now as my son is living on his couch. He just met him and he welcomes him in his darkest hours. He can’t see the past I hold onto in the memories of that young boy’s trials and triumphs. He doesn’t know what I know – the greatness hidden within the young man who’s seeking a way to climb up out of the pit. So with all he can’t see, and with his own motives as an opportunist seeking to bring his wife’s book to life in a chapter of fame and fortune, I wonder will he find the map to the true treasure.

“But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is there will your heart be also.” Mathew 6:20 speaks a great mystery – in line with the words of Christ who spoke of the task to take in the homeless stranger, feed the poor. heal the sick and cause the lame to walk. For by doing so we are doing these things unto the Lord.

Glenn isn’t a man versed in bible scripture or chasing the dogma’s of religion, he’s a guy who came up with the hard knocks of life upon his shoulders who crossed paths with an angel holding a pen named Val. Today as she lives in the realms of all who walked this earth to plant seeds then left us to water their work, I wonder does Val speak to him in his dreams of what lies before him now. A choice in the treasure hunt.

I’m bias of course because I have my own agenda to bring my son back to life, get him situated here in California and help guide him to God’s door I believe to be opening now. But I believe in the author who is writing in the sand called us still today and I believe there is no coincidences in anything unfolding. I know the rise of my son is an intricate part of my own inner flame relit with the gifts of story-telling in honor of the good news. I seek the happy ending. I seek the hero in the midst of hopelessness. I seek to inspire generations with the story I tell today and in the days, weeks, months and years to follow. I seek to speak the language of angels into the mundane world of witchcraft in marketing and empty pursuits of the man’s hands into temporal glories that in the end are meaningless. And yet given as icing on the cake when we choose rightly as God’d word says seek the kingdom within first and then all things will be added to you.

My son’s salvation into getting up and finding his path and purpose is a contingency to what Glenn seeks from me, not of my own choosing but as a heartstring of activation by the hands of hope that my soul needs to see, believe and breathe into the story of redemption that I desperately cling to in my silent hours alone with God.

But I speak to that desperation today and ask that it swim in the calm waters of trust. God already knows who he has sent to pick of the baton and carry my son and I into a miracle. We will have a home here in California. We will see the victory. We will walk into a season where we lend and not borrow. He is the seed I’ve asked the Lord and the ancestors to bless and bless him beyond measure of what his hands can even fathom as his cup will overflow.

Glenn wants to tell the story of one who has passed over into the realms of eternity. I want to tell the story of how their love carries on and their presence is with us always in the assignment of our race we run here and now. They are our guardian angels; but the story being told here and now is in the land of the living who walk the earth. They live on not in memory but through us and in us. And by our actions their story never dies. The story of love. The story of hope. The story of victory over death. For hope, faith and love never die.

As for me, and my own identity crisis of sorts I’ve battled with since my world was turned upside down in 2016, I found a remnant of my own soul today. I am the Texas Football Mom. I am also a writer. But without him, I have no story to tell. And so today I pray by the word of God, “Whatever you wish for in my name will be granted to you,” I wish for my son to be healed, to be HOME here with me and to be lifted up in spirit, body, soul and mind as the path to purpose is revealed here and now. For him. For me. For Glenn. For God’s Glory.

I pray these things with a heart that never stops seeking, never stops asking and chooses to believe that all good gifts come down from the Father of Lights.

In Jesus’ name.

Amen.

I was called out today, leaving Dana Point on essentially no sleep at 1:30 a.m. wake up to report for standby at 4:30 in LA. Then immediately after my check-in I was assigned a turn to New York where I worked the first flight and did a deadhead on the one home; seated in 37A. I didn’t notice it until I was boarding and perhaps the excitement is what prompted me to strike up a conversation with the man next to me. I knew he would be instrumental in some sort of way.

Well, as it turned out, he was working security for a rapper named Big Sean who was seated in first class. The conversation firstly went down a path that made my skin crawl. He shared stories with me about things he’d seen in the industry with past assignments and then we talked about the greed, heartlessness and culturally unsound direction of the US and the youth in particular. Then, I snuck off to try to get into the crew rest compartment under the airplane but was warned against doing so by a guy who was jumpseating – saying that I could get into trouble.

I found a middle seat in the back to take a nap for a couple of hours and then rejoined the security guard an hour before landing as we started our descent. This is when I would find out the reason he was seated next to me and the angels wanted to be sure they had my attention by first flashing the word “Sparks” on the screen as a city we were crossing over (that I’ve never heard of) and then with a time stamp of 37 on the corner and then finally a screen reset placing the image 37A in big bold text in front of me. They come in 3’s I know. But this one was fast and furious – like a siren of the emergency broadcast system speaking to my soul, “Hey girl! Listen up!”

He told me his name was Paul (and that he was named after the Apostle Paul) and how is mother always reminded him that the scripture over his life was to “fight the good fight of faith and finish his race well.” It was an immediate and strange turning of topics from the conversation I’d left hours earlier with an image in my mind of this big guy drinking 40’s at big celebrity parties surrounded by naked women. He talked about where he was from (the islands near Fuji) and the way he was brought up. His mother and her 11 siblings are all independant businesswomen and he never had much of a relationship with his dad. The more he spoke, the more I could feel the soul bond connecting between us. He was a kindred spirit to me and one who had suffered through many trials and near death encounters on his journey to the here and now. With each story he unpacked he ended with, “My mother prayed me through that,” as if there were no doubt in his mind that he had an enemy after his life and a mother holding the weaponry to slay demons. And she did, claimed the big tough guy with a softening heart that became more beautiful and vibrant as he spoke.

When I got off the plane Paul and Big Sean were standing at the end of the jetbride as he opened his big arms and said, “Miss Jodi, I have to give you a hug before I leave.”

It’s not until now as I’m back home in a bed sitting in front of this computer screen do I see a big picture becoming clearer in hindsight 2020 of this 37 meeting. He truly is one of me; a warrior on a mission beyond what he even can understand as he says he’s learning more each day to pray, “God your will not my will be done.”

And tonight as I stare at these websites and blogs I’ve been crafting for years as if the contents were a life or death mission I have a hint of clarity in the story that my soul came here to tell. Maybe it never was about me finding my one true love after my heart was trampled repeatedly throughout my hearts – maybe it’s in the mystery that I still believe God is good. I still believe God is love even though I admit I may not have ever been truly on this earth to set an example of such and I still believe He’s on the throne, writing in the sand called me with new grace each day and a purpose to be here for his Glory.

I see the darkness in people and places. I can feel it when I walk in a room as the energy shifts and the demons are exposed and I keep trying to run away from everything and everyone to find a place of peace and joy where love is the mainstay of the hearts I entertain. But in talking to Paul tonight, I understand that’s not the calling upon someone who’s walked through the fire. Our lives don’t belong to us anymore and we’ve chosen the path less traveled or it chose us. We’re both on borrowed time. We both have been snatched out of the hands of death over and over again. We both are warriors walking by the Spirit of he who sent us.

I’m tired of being silent. Far too much is being shown to me, gifted to me and I won’t take it for granted.

Just last week I was in Florida collecting sand on the beach with my daughter to bring back to California so I could finish my prayer box and get back into the routine of lighting candles and writing letters to God as I send my hopes to heaven. We both have the same nightly prayer; my daughter and I. We want her brother healed and onto a new abundant and fulfilling chapter in his life. And just one day after that, my son woke up with a fire in him to drive to California. He didn’t even stop to take a nap – just drove straight through for 24 hours as we all prayed through the night that his car could make it here and he’d be kept safe. My mom texted me a song from the Judds called “Guardian Angels” as I put my make-up on ready to greet him with tears streaming down my face. And here I am tonight meeting people like Paul who I know too was sent from the angels to let me know that my prayers are powerful. I’m seen. I’m heard. I’m loved. I will be victorious as a warrior with a pen and a mother’s heart determined to see her baby boy rise to the top and walk in his purpose too.

I hope I don’t fly out tomorrow and get to return to Dana Point to see them. But more than anything I hope God’s perfect will is done exactly to plot as His word says that he is giving my son HOPE and a FUTURE.

It’s 11:17 (my kids bdays) and I’m going to sleep with hope in my heart tonight for the first time in a long time.

Dear God,

Thank you for all you are doing. You truly do paint beauty from our ashes and I just want to thank you that Josh is here and that something big is happening. Please guide our hearts – me and Glenn and his father and my daughter and Tamra too. Stir in us all your love and purpose and gift us your divine guidance and care. Show us the way as you light the path before our feet and let this be a story of your Glory in pulling my son out of a dark place and into greatness by the power that can only be granted by your hands.

Thank you Father.

In Jesus Name.

Amen.

The one thing I’ve wanted most in recent years is to have someone to talk to who understands. More than a listener or even a voice of confidence, I’ve longed for a guide – a wiseman to come along and say to me, “I’ve been where you are and I have the roadmap to where you are going.” I’ve searched high and low without any such luck. However, I have continually received the puzzle pieces leading me further into the unfolding of a story beyond my human comprehension of what’s possible.

If I truly go back to the beginning, I find myself in my earliest memories as little girl who sleepwalked and scared the bejeeses out of my mother. She complained that she’d wake sometimes in the middle of the night to a wide-eyed little me staring her in the eyes as I repeatedly asked, “Who are you?” and then would correct her when she answered with, “No, you’re not my mother. So, who are you?” She laughed it off and it wasn’t a thing I’d think upon until recently as these strange revelations about myself and my identity beyond this lifetime stay top of mind.

Next, I would travel further into the future remembering a key moment when I had my first ultrasound while pregnant with my son. Let’s call him Jake. When I saw the structure of his bones and listened to his heartbeat a type of joy I’ve never before felt washed through my system. It wasn’t just an excitement of an expectant mother. I’d felt that with my first child. This was different. It’s like I was looking at the arrival of something that was bigger than motherhood. My soul knew him. And in that moment, I recall a strange phrase repeating in my thoughts, “He’s mine. He’s mine. He’s mine.”

His birth into this world didn’t just bring a new child into our household. It birthed a new version of me. One that I would work very hard to keep a secret. He was born on August 17, 2001. And immediately upon returning home from the hospital I remember having a dream unlike any dream I’d ever before experienced. This dream was lifelike to a point that I woke up sweating and labored; as if I had just stepped out of that scene with all of the physical symptoms to indicate I’d actually been there – on the scene of a plane crash. I still remember the images of the pieces of that American Airline jet falling from the sky and the tail wing logo. And I was so shaken by this dream I even put up a big fight with my husband at the time, demanding that he cancel all of his business trips that required him to fly. He thought I’d lost my mind. And I started to wonder if he was right – knowing my behavior wasn’t rational. But then just a few short weeks later, the plane crashes of September 11th shook this world, creating a sense of silence in our own household that went far deeper than the external pain and shock in the country outside of our 4 walls. He knew I’d seen something in my dreamspace. I knew it too. Neither of us could explain such a thing but a distance between us began formulating in the awkwardness.

The night of September 11th also marked the first time I felt the presence of a ghost and even spoke out loud to my great grandmother as I sang the song, “Amazing Grace” to my baby boy in a rocking chair upstairs. I was half asleep and in a twilight state of conscious as I sang the lyrics and then suddenly asked out loud, “Granny Dotta is that you?” My words puzzled me. I even caught myself asking, “Who just used my voice to speak to my ancestors? I don’t do that,” shaking my head in confusion. Something in me sensed her presence and responded without my rational thought or control.

Years later we experienced strange happenings in a home we leased in Raleigh, North Carolina. The toys would go off at random hours in the night by themselves. My son’s 4-wheeler that was kept on the back patio began sounding off nightly, until my husband finally got up one night to remove the batteries. About 5 minutes later it went back to making noise without any electrical source. That’s when my husband concluded that the house was haunted and demanded that we move back to Houston.

And when I received my first dream after meeting the Nigerian woman who showed up on my doorstep in 2016 claiming God sent her and I was her assignment, the dream opened with a scene of my son falling down in a race and not getting back up to keep running.

Yes there’s something special about my son tied to my mission and to the great mystery of this prophetic book I wrote in 2015 that I’ve seemingly been living inside of as a type of parallel reality to the characters of fiction and fantasy.

Remember Skyla ended with the widow finding a book. It was authored by someone who had the power to reveal to her the future of her own life – an unread chapter and a proposal of what must happen next in a time when she believed she’d finished all she’d came here to do on this earth. But before she found the book, she was caught inside of a strange game of clue that seemingly was orchestrated by a source that wasn’t human. The angels. The ancestors. God. An author of new beginnings, great surprise and redemption where hope was lost.

Well, tonight is quite a special night as my son surprised everyone with what he pulled over the last 24 hours in driving from Texas to California without even stopping for a nap. He was on a mission and whatever was powering his actions and protecting his car that wasn’t even sound enough to drive to the grocery store, let alone across the country is not of human strength and plan. I know God’s pen is in this grand gesture. I know the angels created a hedge of protection around him. I know something very significant is taking place right now.

I also know it’s time to pause, get out the treasure chest and take inventory of where I’m at in my quest to find the book that appeared at the end of my manuscript I wrote in 2015 called Remember Skyla. And this time, I might be starting at the end working my way backwards because I believe I might have finally found the mystery book. But just like the work I wrote that never made it to print. This too is a manuscript that’s not yet published. And the author of this manuscript now lives in Heaven.

I was given a copy of Hotel California just a month after I woke up to the voice telling me, “Find your lost buried book.” The man who is now a widow of the author asked me to look it over and asked for my help and advice in publishing it. But I didn’t read it. I was too caught up in the haze of trying to make sense of the dots connecting my own life to the other lost book.

Again the manuscript found me 3 years later when the man gave me a hard copy of the manuscript as I was visiting California on a layover. You would think I’d have been a little more attentive on this second appearance of Hotel California as I’d just left a regression hypnotherapy session with Dr. Anne Marie where my Granny in Heaven led me to Marylnn Monroe – just 3 days before I walked into Valerie’s office and saw a huge poster of Marilynn Monroe covering the wall of her office where she wrote this manuscript. Yes, I took notice. Yes, I messaged Dr. Anne Marie to tell her about the shocking connection. But I still didn’t read the manuscript. Although this time my reasoning was different.

You see as soon as I started reading Val’s book. My entire system began going crazy. I was having vivid dreams and feeling out of body panic attacks. It’s as if the words in the pages were activating visuals and memories that I couldn’t process or understand. I was too confused and embarrassed to explain this to anyone so I simply put the book down hoping that these symptoms would go away.

Here I am now typing this message tonight while laying on the sofa next to Val’s desk, staring up at that poster of Marilyn Monroe, while my son – the subject of my prayers and letters to God I’ve sent into the heavens for exactly 6 years now (to the very week of today) is sleeping sound in the room directly underneath me.

Could it be that all along God was trying to show me an angel in my path in the man who had loved Val, took care of her until she passed away and was divinely sent into my life as an answer to my prayers for me and my son? I was looking everywhere except at the obvious thing right before me the entire time.

My husband’s divorce was final on May 30, 2019. Then I lost my son on June 7, 2019 when he moved out to care for his Dad. I then visited a friend and stayed in a hotel in California – visiting the twin peaks at Point Magu on the weekend of February 23rd and had the profound experience of a portal opening at the very moment my Granny had passed just 3 years later. That prompted me to have dreams of moving to California – which I did in the Spring of 2021. Exactly one month later I met Mr. B, Val’s husband and he visited me and my daughter on the anniversary of his wife passing.

Does my book unpublished, “Remember Skyla” from 2015 have some sort of connection to Val’s book that remains unpublished from 2020? Did she download the book from the Heavens after my visit to California in 2020 opened up the portal at the Twin Mountains? Is this the mystery book from the ending of my script that holds the key to unlocking something so beyond my human comprehension that could connect the puzzle pieces of this divine game of Clue I’ve seemingly been trapped in for nearly a decade?

In my past life regression session with Dr. Anne Marie last Summer in Florida, the recording retells the story of a lifetime that ended with me dying at the bottom of ocean after going overboard a ship. In these scenes I was with a man who I loved on the shores of a place that looked a lot like the Rocky Mountain banks of Southern California. He betrayed me and allowed another man to take me captive on a ship and sail away. I didn’t get to see how I went overboard – whether I was killed or jumped off the ship in suicide during that regression. But I did receive information about who those characters are in my life today. One of the men was my ex-husband and the father of my son in this life. The other man is a friend I met 20 years ago who lured me to California in 2020 and drove me to Point Magu.

In other dreams I’ve had over the last year I’ve seen me with the California man and my son in various scenes. All of these images show my son as a small child. Something in me knows that I lost my son and that had something to do with my death in that past life. Something else in me believes that I’m living inside of a story of redemption for both me and him. And something deep inside of me says that when I do find the strength to open this book written by the writer named Val who’s husband has repeatedly asked me to read it, I will be opened up to see something beyond my wildest dreams.

So I guess this is where it begins. This is where I allow myself to believe in the angels who have been guiding my path and embrace the gift of Hotel California – a script placed in my hands for a divine reason.